"gridler" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1908, W. H. Davies, chapter 31, in The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp:",
          "text": "Professional singers are paid according to the richness, sweetness, and compass of their voices, but the gridler's profit increases as his vocal powers decline.",
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          "text": "The consequence was that the gridler proposed they should work together. Davies consented, although he did not yet know what the work might be.",
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          "ref": "2014, Joseph O'Neill, The Secret World of the Victorian Lodging House:",
          "text": "Others who relied on their ability to tell a heartrending tale were the 'gridlers' and 'chanters', whose misfortunes would even engage the sympathies of a pawnbroker.",
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        "One who gridles (sings as a form of begging)."
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