Citations:garbager

English citations of garbager

1900, Life-records of Chaucer: The robberies of Chaucer by Richard Brerelay and others at Westminster, and at Hatcham, Surrey, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1390, page 36:
A GARBAGER SERJEANT OF THE SCULLERY shal aunswere to his master serjant poulter for the mony which he hath resceved of him or of the warderobe.
(Can we date this quote?) The Place of the Reign of Edward II In English History, Manchester University Press, page 409:
[…] ; akers of the kitchen, 293; ewers of the kitchen, 292, 294; garbager of the kitchen, 295; valet garbager of the kitchen, 295; baker, the, 312, 317; […]
1993, Ian Short, Anglo-Norman Anniversary Essays
... including that of the garbager who dealt with the offal in the royal kitchens. Not only is the garbager himself unknown to the dictionaries, but time and again the compiler of these ordinances uses standard French procedures to ...

mention, definition:

1875, Life-records of Chaucer,
Garbager, ? looker after the refuse and offal, 36
2004, Mark Morton, Cupboard Love 2: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities:
one of the officers of the British royal kitchen—specifically the one in charge of preparing chicken carcasses—was honoured with the title of Sergeant Garbager.
2019, Paul Convery, Eat Your Words: The Definitive Dictionary for the Discerning Diner, Mango Media Inc. (→ISBN)
serjeant garbager * an officer of the old royal kitchen in charge of the poultry service

1908, Morrison Isaac Swift, The Monarch Billionaire, page 278:
operatives, blacksmiths, brakemen, […] ash-emptiers, scavengers, garbagers, common laborers, or their lives and their profits […]
1986, Diana De Marly, Working Dress: A History of Occupational Clothing, New York : Holmes & Meier
[…] dustmen / garbagers 56, 88

galley slaves 39

gamekeepers 25, 70, 113
2020, John P. Slattery, T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN), page 314:
... or “garbage people,” because more than 95 percent of this approximately sixty-thousand-person community are responsible for Cairo's garbage collection and recycling.34 These garbagers work every day to bring Cairo's garbage on ...

literarily:

1975, Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, Stonehill Publishers, page 56:
For everyone was aware of the frequent fate of literary garbage hurlers : that later years, even later centuries, find plenty of case-files opened on the garbagers, and plenty of pens poised ready to garbage the garbagers.
1976, Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry, page 29:
Ahh how history loves to garbage the garbagers. One useful method, if you find yourself preparing garbage grids, and you want to MAINTAIN ACCURACY, is to prepare some garbage grids on YOURSELF self-garbage see how you like ...

1904, Mrs. Henry Dudeney, The Story of Susan, page 244:
"Passons be the garbagers o ' death." "Well, well, Mary, you pray Church of England yourself sometimes," said Martin good-humouredly enough — it made him light of heart to see pretty Susan draw in a chair at his table.
2011, Alice Notley, Culture of One, Penguin (→ISBN)
The Decline of Memory in Our Time I can't remember why I wanted to make a codex. Marie doesn't know the word “codex.” But she tries not to remember, by making what she makes containing all her memories and yours, o garbagers: your ...