Garreter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of garreteer (“poor writer; literary hack”). alt-of, alternative

    "Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread."

  2. 2
    A thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows. obsolete

    "[A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys."

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dancer

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"Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread."

Etymology

From garret + -er.

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