subs. (vagrants’).—1.  A begging imposter; a SILVER BEGGAR (q.v.). See DEMAUNDER FOR GLYMMAR. Also LURKSMAN.

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  1851–61.  H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 233. In every large town sham official documents, with crests, seals, and signatures, can be got for half-a-crown. Armed with these, the patterer becomes LURKER,—that is, an imposter.

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  2.  (thieves’).—A JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES (q.v.).

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