cadger

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The first consists of the people who will not go to the theatre without an order, but do not expect first-night tickets—one may call them the "cadgers."

From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Spence, Edward Fordham

Single-horse traffickers, called cadgers, plied between the country towns and the villages, supplying the inhabitants with salt, fish, earthenware, and articles of clothing, which they carried in sacks or creels hung across their horses' backs.

From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Smiles, Samuel

I hope it will come soon, or the old girl at the inn here will think we’re cadgers.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

Getting within sight of the city’s gate, the cadgers could see it was shut, drawbridge up, and portcullis down.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

You may meet policemen, chauffeurs, printers, toughs, the boy and girl who have been to a gallery and want to finish the night in proper style, and—the cadgers.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas