2. (old).—The fob-pocket.
To have one’s garret unfurnished, verb. phr. (common). To be crazy, stupid, lumpish. For synonyms, see Apartments and Balmy.
Garreteer, subs. (thieves’). A thief whose speciality is to rob houses by entering skylights or garret-windows. Also dancer and dancing-master. For synonyms, see thieves.
2. (journalists’).—An impecunious author; a literary hack.
1849–61. Macaulay, Hist. of Eng., ch. xxv. Garreteers, who were never weary of calling the cousin of the Earls of Manchester and Sandwich an upstart.
1886. Shelley (quoted in Dowden’s Life), i., 47. Show them that we are no Grub-street garreteers.
1892. National Observer, 18 Mar., p. 453. Has proclaimed urbi et orbi that governments have no business to manufacture specious sentiment by greasing the palms of ignorant and greedy garreteers.
Garret-master, subs. (trade).—A cabinet-maker who works on his own account, selling his manufacture to the dealers direct.
1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., ii., p. 376. These trading operatives are known by different names in different trades. In the shoe trade, for instance, they are called ‘chamber-masters,’ in the cabinet trade garret-masters, and in the cooper’s trade the name for them is ‘small trading-masters.’ [[121]]
Garrison-hack, subs. (common).—1. A woman given to indiscriminate flirtation with officers at a garrison.