Grose's A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) mentions the army custom of a marriage over the sword, the officiant, an NCO, pronouncing "Leap rogue, and jump

Grose's A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) mentions the army custom of a marriage over the sword, the officiant, an NCO, pronouncing "Leap rogue, and jump whore/And now you are married forevermore." And somebody in Great Expectations is said to have been "married over the stick".