Talk:scrambler

Missing sense?

What does it mean here? (found in Thomas Crofton Croker, Popular Songs of Ireland, 1839):

'Tis there are dogs dancing, and wild beasts a prancing,
With neat bits of painting in red, yellow, and gold;
Toss-players and scramblers, and showmen and gamblers,
Pickpockets in plenty, both of young and of old.

Probably unrelated (but I'm intrigued) the rapper Grandmaster Flash has some strangely similar lines about "Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers / Pickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers".

Equinox ◑ 15:48, 20 July 2020 (UTC)