Meaning of garreter | Babel Free

Definitions

A thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows.

obsolete

Examples

“Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread.”

“[A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys.”

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