subs. (tramps’).—A beggars’ petition, based on a fictitious fire or GLIM (sense 2).
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. I., p. 233. The patterer becomes a ‘lurker,’—that is, an imposter; his papers certify any and every ‘ill that flesh is heir to.’ Shipwreck is called a ‘shake-lurk’; loss by fire is a ‘GLIM.’
