filcher

Example Sentences

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For years, reluctant sharers only had to fend off the occasional fry filcher, or the girlfriend who virtuously passes on dessert — and then plants her fork in her companion’s creme brulee.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2015

No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !

From Time Magazine Archive

I was no Candle-snuffer filcher, and, save in the matter of Fat Bucks, the rest of our gang were, indeed, passing honest.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

This man bore a high reputation in his calling, and was, indeed, esteemed as a sort of Scottish Vidocq, who knew by headmark every filcher of a handkerchief between Caithness and the Border.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

His kneading tub and his pavin are the two misteries of his occupation and he is a filcher by his trade, but the miller is before him.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John