What is "bodger"

Usage examples of "bodger".

The knight would be mad as hell about Bodger and Grift turning up on the doorstep, and even madder about the note.

After all he deserved it, sending Bodger and Grift round with the password, getting Lord Maybor nearly killed.

Bodger and Grift would force fancies and sweetmeats on her like a pair of maiden aunts, Nabber brought her gifts like an overardent suitor, and Maybor checked in on her by the hour like a nursemaid.

Bodger and Grift had tapped discreetly on the door, and when they walked into the room they brought a full-blown banquet with them.

Later, after Bodger passed out and Grift was forced to carry him from the room, things had mellowed to a slow, sleepy hush.

Melli had watched as Maybor and Bodger and Grift fought with the two men.

Bodger gave Grift a dubious look-he could never tell when Grift was pulling his leg.

Pulling chairs in a rough circle about the glowing hearth, they had listened to the ballads of Bodger the dwarf, and as the night wore on someone had suggested that each tell a story.

In returning therefore unto my purpose, I find that in corn great abuse is daily suffered, to the great prejudice of the town and country, especially the poor artificer and householder, which tilleth no land, but, labouring all the week to buy a bushel or two of grain on the market day, can there have none for his money: because bodgers, loaders, and common carriers of corn do not only buy up all, but give above the price, to be served of great quantities.

Thus the bodgers bear away all, so that the poor artificer and labourer cannot make his provision in the markets, sith they will hardly nowadays sell by the bushel, nor break their measure.

Finally, if men's barns might be indifferently viewed immediately after harvest, and a note gathered by an estimate, and kept by some appointed and trusty person for that purpose, we should have much more plenty of corn in our town crosses than as yet is commonly seen: because each one hideth and hoardeth what he may, upon purpose either that it will be dearer, or that he shall have some privy vein by bodgers, who do accustomably so deal that the sea doth load away no small part thereof into other countries and our enemies, to the great hindrance of our commonwealth at home, and more likely yet to be, except some remedy be found.

But what do I talk of these things, or desire the suppression of bodgers, being a minister?

Nay, the poor man cannot oft get any of the farmer at home, because he provideth altogether to serve the bodger, or hath an hope, grounded upon a greedy and insatiable desire of gain, that the sale will be better in the market, so that he must give twopence or a groat more in the bushel at his house than the last market craved, or else go without it, and sleep with a hungry belly.