garreter

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garreter

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From garret + -er.

noun garreters

alternative Alternative form of garreteer (“poor writer; literary hack”). Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread.
obsolete A thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows. [A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys.
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@misc{garreter_2026,
  title = {garreter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/garreter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}