subs. (old).—1. Men of wit in Ireland, who in the night amuse themselves with cutting inoffensive passengers across the face with a knife. They are somewhat like those facetious gentlemen, some time ago known in England by the title of sweaters and mohocks.—Grose. See Ireland Sixty Years Since (p. 15).
2. sing. (common).—A London milkman.—See quot. [One who mixes with chalk—an obvious innuendo.] Cf., COW WITH THE IRON TAIL and SIMPSON’S COW.
1865. Daily Telegraph, 7 Sept. (?). It is an ominous fact that London milkmen are known in the vocabulary of slang as CHALKERS.
