(old).—A scavenger; one fit only for low, dirty jobs.
1647. FLETCHER, The Prophetess, iii. 1. Give your petitions in seemly sort, and keep your hat off decently, a fine periphrasis of a KENNEL-RAKER.
1655. Comicall History of Francion [quoted by NARES]. They heard behind them so great a hooping and hallowing of men and boys, and an outcry of women, that they were inforced to look back, and presently they discovered a young man, who had nothing but his shirt on his back, and not so much as shoes on his feet, who was followed by a number of the KENNELRAKERS, who made a perpetual shout.
d. 1735. ARBUTHNOT, Wks. (1751), I. 49. You did not love Cruelty, you KENNEL-RAKER, you Gibbet-carrier.
