conveyancer

plural conveyancers

1. lawAn attorney who passes transfer of immovable property from one party to another.
2. UKobsoleteslangA pickpocket.

   Then will Lincoln's Inn change its sombre hue to Lincoln green. There will be no conveyancers, i. e. no thieves, no pickpockets.

   1857, Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson), Tea-table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies (page 209)

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   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.

   1822, A Morning in Cork-Street: or, Raising the wind, page 102