subs. (old).An emptier of cesspools; a GOLD-FINDER (q.v.). Also JAKES-RAKER (SKELTON) and JAKES-BARRELLER.
1596. NASHE, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, in Works [GROSART], iii. 196. Like a JAKES-BARELLER.
1606. MARSTON, Parasitaster, or the Fawne, ii. 1. Nay, I will embrace a JAKES-FARMER, after eleven a clocke at night.
1613. CHAPMAN, JONSON & MARSTON, The Insatiate Countesse, ii. 2. Well, what time goes the JAKES-FARMER?
1615. SYLVESTER, Tobacco Battered &c., Wks., p. 575. Not scorning scullions, coblers, colliers, JAKES-FARMERS, fidlers, ostlers, oysterers.
1647. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Loves Cure, or the Martial Maid Women Pleasd, ii. 1. Nay we are all signiors here in Spain, from the JAKES FARMER to the grandee, or adelantado.