almsman

Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman.

From Time Magazine Archive

O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

Thus, though we find in Johnson, alms-basket, alms-giver, with the hyphen; we have almsdeed, almshouse, almsman, without: and many similar examples of an unsettled practice might be adduced, sufficient to fill several pages.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

A little money, kept to give in alms, I have about me: deathsman, take it all; Thou art the last poor almsman I shall see.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

It was, when made of coarse material, commonly worn in the middle ages by pilgrims, beggars and almsmen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

The almsmen of Ely and Rochester have cloaks.

From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

On their saint's day, as in the old days of the Guild, the Company marched in great magnificence, with music and flags and new liveries, with their wardens, officers, schoolboys, almsmen, and priests, to church.

From As We Are and As We May Be by Sir Walter Besant

Originally built for twelve almsmen and almswomen, they have been latterly occupied entirely by women.

From Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant

The Bourgeois knew that his poor almsmen would be standing there, and he would no more avoid them than he would avoid the Governor.

From The Golden Dog by William Kirby