Crossword clues for cadger
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cadger \Cadg"er\, n. [From Cadge, v. t., cf. Codger.]
A packman or itinerant huckster.
One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] ``The gentleman cadger.''
--Dickens.
Cadger \Cadg"er\, n. [OF. cagier one who catches hawks. Cf. Cage.] (Hawking) One who carries hawks on a cadge.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A hawker or peddler. 2 (context sometimes Geordie English) A beggar.
WordNet
Usage examples of "cadger".
Like a bird on the wing, or a stone from a sling, Flew Cadger, first over the double.
Scarcely a soul was about--only a dripping labourer at a gate, and a cadger with pack-horses struggling towards the next change-house.
I passed him on the road yestereen mounted like a cadger and groaning like an auld wife.
Poor Mr Goldsworthy, incurable cadger that he was, was bound to feel the family reverses acutely.
It was a typical field cage of the type that cadgers wore on their backs during a hunta cumbersome framework that loomed high above the shoulders and that would have been staggeringly heavy on Earth.
Prosecutors, witnesses, officials, policemen, detectives, undetected, pressmen, barristers, loafers, clerks, cadgers, jurymen.
It was a typical field cage of the type that cadgers wore on their backs during a hunta cumbersome framework that loomed high above the shoulders and that would have been staggeringly heavy on Earth.
Prosecutors, witnesses, officials, policemen, detectives, undetected, pressmen, barristers, loafers, clerks, cadgers, jurymen.
The enormous sails fluttered, beating the thin air for altitude, and then the kitelike creatures wheeled about and soared back in the direction of the waiting cadgers.
He let his gaze wander back to the little group of mounted cadgers, carrying the rest of the birds on the open frameworks strapped to their shoulders, and the dog handlers, struggling with a yapping pack of salukis who looked goggle-eyed and elephant-faced in their long-snouted breathing masks.
The cadgers were busy readying a new cast of falcons, unscrewing the air tubes from the cadge tanks and attaching them to the little streamlined nacelles the birds carried in flight.
Most were just pals--girl talk acquaintances, fellow cocktail lounge cadgers and aspiring actresses heading nowhere.