subs. (old).—An emptier of cesspools; a GOLD-FINDER (q.v.). Also JAKES-RAKER (SKELTON) and JAKES-BARRELLER.

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  1596.  NASHE, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, in Works [GROSART], iii. 196. Like a JAKES-BARELLER.

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  1606.  MARSTON, Parasitaster, or the Fawne, ii. 1. Nay, I will embrace a JAKES-FARMER, after eleven a clocke at night.

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  1613.  CHAPMAN, JONSON & MARSTON, The Insatiate Countesse, ii. 2. Well, what time goes the JAKES-FARMER?

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  1615.  SYLVESTER, Tobacco Battered &c., Wks., p. 575. Not scorning scullions, coblers, colliers, JAKES-FARMERS, fidlers, ostlers, oysterers.

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  1647.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Loves Cure, or the Martial Maid Women Pleas’d, ii. 1. Nay we are all signiors here in Spain, from the JAKES FARMER to the grandee, or adelantado.

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