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kennel-raker

noun

Definitions

  1. A poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment.

    • For scouring the water-courses through the cities; A fine periphrasis of a kennel-raker!
    • The Link-boy, on the same scale of declension, scorned the kennel-raker; but we know not, though doubtless he could, who he thought more contemptible than himself.
    • The vagabond kennel-raker, the nomadic coster, the houseless thief, the man of the lowest order of intellect or of morals, sees the majesty of the law descending to the punch-and-judy level.

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