gridler

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English

Etymology

From gridle +‎ -er.

Noun

gridler (plural gridlers)

  1. One who gridles (sings as a form of begging).
    • 1908, W. H. Davies, chapter 31, in The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp:
      Professional singers are paid according to the richness, sweetness, and compass of their voices, but the gridler's profit increases as his vocal powers decline.
    • 1934, Thomas Moult, W. H. Davies, page 61:
      The consequence was that the gridler proposed they should work together. Davies consented, although he did not yet know what the work might be.
    • 2014, Joseph O'Neill, The Secret World of the Victorian Lodging House:
      Others who relied on their ability to tell a heartrending tale were the 'gridlers' and 'chanters', whose misfortunes would even engage the sympathies of a pawnbroker.

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