kennel raker

English

Noun

kennel raker (plural kennel rakers)

1. Alternative form of kennel-raker
   • 1895, Stephen Martin Leake, Sir Clements Robert Markham -, Life of Captain Stephen Martin, 1666-1740 - Volume 5, page 174:

     All the information that could be got was from a butcher in Paternoster Row, who saw a kennel raker take up such like a ring out of the kennel next morning, who supposed it was a stone ring, and carried it away.

   • 1935, Wallace Notestein, Frances Helen Relf, Hartley Simpson, Commons Debates, 1621: Appendices: A. Bills. B. pt. 1, page 477:

     A number of the carmen [many of them named] collected money among themselves and got Thomas Acres, a poor silly kennel raker, to put a bill in Star Chamber full of false accusations.

   • 1996, Martha Carlin, Medieval Southwark, page 242:

     The early sixteenth-century poem 'Cock Lorell's Bote' includes caricatures of an Irish 'gong' (dung) farmer and kennel raker.