"lick-trencher" meaning in English

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          "text": "Why Peniculus worship, that whorson lick-trencher, your Parasiticall attendant.",
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          "ref": "1860 May 29, “William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher—IV. The Painter's Progress”, in Cornhill Magazine, pages 565–566",
          "text": "The earliest known picture of William Hogarth is one called the Wanstead Assembly, long, and by a ridiculous blunder, corrupted into \"Wandsworth.\" The term \"Assembly\" was a little bit of art-slang. A portrait being a portrait, and a \"conversation\" a group of persons generally belonging to one family; by an \"assembly\" was understood a kind of pictorial rent-roll, or domestic \"achievement,\" representing the lord, or the squire, the ladies and children, the secretaries, chaplains, pensioned poets, led-captains, body-flatterers, hangers-on, needy clients, lick-trenchers, and scrape-plates, the governesses and tutors, the tenants, the lacqueys, the black-boys, the monkeys, and the lapdogs: tutta la baracca, in fact.",
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