kennel raker

A form of kennel-raker — A poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment.

Meanings

nounkennel raker (plural kennel rakers)

plural kennel rakers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of kennel-raker.

    The early sixteenth-century poem 'Cock Lorell's Bote' includes caricatures of an Irish 'gong' (dung) farmer and kennel raker.

    1996, Martha Carlin, Medieval Southwark, page 242
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    All the information that could be got was from a butcher in Paternoster Row, who saw a kennel raker take up such like a ring out of the kennel next morning, who supposed it was a stone ring, and carried it away.

    1895, Stephen Martin Leake, Sir Clements Robert Markham -, Life of Captain Stephen Martin, 1666-1740 - Volume 5, page 174

    A number of the carmen [many of them named] collected money among themselves and got Thomas Acres, a poor silly kennel raker, to put a bill in Star Chamber full of false accusations.

    1935, Wallace Notestein, Frances Helen Relf, Hartley Simpson, Commons Debates, 1621: Appendices: A. Bills. B. pt. 1, page 477
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