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kennel-raker

kennel-raker noun: a poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment.

Noun

kennel-raker (plural kennel-rakers)

  1. (archaic) A poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment.
    • For scouring the water-courses through the cities; A fine periphrasis of a kennel-raker!1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Prophetess
    • The Link-boy, on the same scale of declension, scorned the kennel-raker; but we know not, though doubtless he could, who he thought more contemptible than himself.1827, W. H. Pyne, The World in Miniature; England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 257

Forms of kennel-raker

pluralkennel-rakers
alternative formkennel raker

Questions about kennel-raker

What does kennel-raker mean?
Kennel-raker means a poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment.
What part of speech is kennel-raker?
Kennel-raker is a noun.
What is the plural of kennel-raker?
The plural of kennel-raker is kennel-rakers.

Words near kennel-raker in the dictionary

  1. kennel councils
  2. kennel maid
  3. kennel maids
  4. kennel raker
  5. kennel rakers
  6. kennel-raker
  7. kennel-rakers
  8. kenneled
  9. kennelful
  10. kennelfuls
  11. kenneling

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