snow-gatherer

English

Noun

snow-gatherer (plural snow-gatherers)

1. (thieves' cant, obsolete) A thief who steals laundry that has been placed outside to dry.

   Synonym: snow-dropper

   • 1867, Every Saturday, volume 3, page 356:

     […] the "snow gatherer," as the rascal who makes the thieving of linen his special study poetically styles himself; […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary