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conveyancer

noun

Etymology

From conveyance + -er.

  1. inherited from conveiance,conveyaunce
  2. suffixed as conveyancer — “conveyance + er”

Definitions

  1. An attorney who passes transfer of immovable property from one party to another.

  2. A pickpocket.

    • The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take.
    • Then will Lincoln's Inn change its sombre hue to Lincoln green. There will be no conveyancers, i. e. no thieves, no pickpockets.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA