snow-gatherer

English

Noun

snow-gatherer (plural snow-gatherers)

  1. (thieves' cant, obsolete) A thief who steals laundry that has been placed outside to dry.
    Synonym: snow-dropper
    • 1867, Every Saturday, volume 3, page 356:
      […] the "snow gatherer," as the rascal who makes the thieving of linen his special study poetically styles himself; […]

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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