grafter

If the man becomes a grafter or thief, the President is attacked by the opposition.

An infallible recipe for the cure of ague is said to be the following: Go to a grafter of trees, and tell him your complaint.

Comstock was an old-style Puritan, and many insist that he was likewise an old-style grafter.

It is done in this way: a grafter becomes an assemblyman, and with others lays a plan of graft.

A pretty decent sort of a grafter, Grove is, but he's done with crooked work and has gone to California to lead a different life.