Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Reliever
subs. (old).—See quot.
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1850. C. KINGSLEY, Cheap Clothes and Nasty. In some sweating places, there is an old coat kept called the ‘RELIEVER,’ and this is borrowed by such men as have none of their own to go out in.
