"kennel-raker" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Prophetess",
          "text": "For scouring the water-courses through the cities; A fine periphrasis of a kennel-raker!",
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          "ref": "1827, W. H. Pyne, The World in Miniature; England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 257",
          "text": "The Link-boy, on the same scale of declension, scorned the kennel-raker; but we know not, though doubtless he could, who he thought more contemptible than himself.",
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          "ref": "1852 March, “Public Executions in England”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 4, number 22, page 544",
          "text": "The vagabond kennel-raker, the nomadic coster, the houseless thief, the man of the lowest order of intellect or of morals, sees the majesty of the law descending to the punch-and-judy level.",
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          "ref": "1841, Thomas Cogswell Upham, Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, page 449",
          "text": "He has been in all situations and occupations of life, according to his own account ; a potboy at Hampstead, a shoeblack, a chimney-sweeper, an East India Director, a kennel-raker, a gold-finder, an oyster-woman, a Jew cast-clothesman, a police justice, a judge, a keeper of Newgate, and, as he styles it, 'His Majesty's law iron-monger for the home department:' nay, he has even been Jack Ketch, and has hung hundreds; he has been a soldier, and has killed thousands; a Portuguese, and poniarded scores; a Jew pedlar, and cheated all the world; a member of Parliament for London, and betrayed his constituents; a Lord Mayor, a bishop, an admiral, a dancing-master, a Rabbi, Grimaldi in the pantomime, and ten thousand other occupations, that no tongue or memory but his own could enumerate.",
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          "ref": "1981, John O'Keeffe, Frederick M. Link, The plays of John O'Keeffe - Volume 4, page 177",
          "text": "Why you upstart ignoramus! do you take me for an ironmonger? I'll leave you to dabble in your little shabby brook like a kennel- raker as you are, but I'll help the Lord of the Manor to freight all the herring-boats in the bay with glorious bullion.",
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        "A poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment."
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        "(archaic) A poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment."
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          "word": "kennel raker"
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          "ref": "1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Prophetess",
          "text": "For scouring the water-courses through the cities; A fine periphrasis of a kennel-raker!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1827, W. H. Pyne, The World in Miniature; England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 257",
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          "ref": "1852 March, “Public Executions in England”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 4, number 22, page 544",
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          "ref": "1841, Thomas Cogswell Upham, Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, page 449",
          "text": "He has been in all situations and occupations of life, according to his own account ; a potboy at Hampstead, a shoeblack, a chimney-sweeper, an East India Director, a kennel-raker, a gold-finder, an oyster-woman, a Jew cast-clothesman, a police justice, a judge, a keeper of Newgate, and, as he styles it, 'His Majesty's law iron-monger for the home department:' nay, he has even been Jack Ketch, and has hung hundreds; he has been a soldier, and has killed thousands; a Portuguese, and poniarded scores; a Jew pedlar, and cheated all the world; a member of Parliament for London, and betrayed his constituents; a Lord Mayor, a bishop, an admiral, a dancing-master, a Rabbi, Grimaldi in the pantomime, and ten thousand other occupations, that no tongue or memory but his own could enumerate.",
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          "text": "Why you upstart ignoramus! do you take me for an ironmonger? I'll leave you to dabble in your little shabby brook like a kennel- raker as you are, but I'll help the Lord of the Manor to freight all the herring-boats in the bay with glorious bullion.",
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