subs. (old).—A hackney coach. Hence rumbler’s flunkey = (1) a footman and (2) a cab-runner; runningrumbler = a carriage thief’s confederate.
c. 1816. Old Song, ‘The Night before Larry Was Stretched’ [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 81].
| The RUMBLER jugg’d off from his feet, | |
| And he died with his face to the city. |
c. 1819. Old Song, ‘The Song of the Young Prig’ [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 82].
| I first held horses in the street, | |
| But being found defaulter, | |
| Turned RUMBLER’S FLUNKEY for my meat. |
1821. W. T. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry, ii. 4. A rattler … is a RUMBLER, otherwise a jarvey, better known, perhaps, by the name of a rack.
