Dirt-dauber

noun

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  1. 1
    A common labourer who makes mud walls. obsolete

    "If […] that I am a younger brother, basely born […], of mean parentage, a dirt-dauber’s son, “am I therefore to be blamed?”"

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"If […] that I am a younger brother, basely born […], of mean parentage, a dirt-dauber’s son, “am I therefore to be blamed?”"

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