cadger

plural cadgers

1. archaicA hawker or peddler.

   He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.

   1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC

2. GeordiesometimesA beggar.

   A woman mysteriously sitting up all night in the dark by the smouldering ashes of the kitchen fire, says it's only tramps and cadgers here

   1851, Charles Dickens, On Duty with Inspector Field