regrater

Next morning Doctor Unonius was called away from his breakfast to visit Sarah Puckey, an aged market woman or 'regrater,' whom he found in a state of prostration following (it was alleged) upon a severe nervous shock.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

In truth, Mr. Benny as a regrater fell disastrously short of success, being prone to sell at monstrous overweights, which ate up the profits.

Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

She's a regrater when in health; but there's a baby come.

Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

This treatment had led to his becoming a sort of regrater of other men's gallantries, to his own aggrandizement as a Corinthian, rather than to the moral profit of his hearers.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

There with ceremonial evolution and manoeuvre, with fanfaronading, musketry-salvoes, and what else the Patriot genius could devise, they made oath and obtestation to stand faithfully by one another, under Law and King; in particular, to have all manner of grains, while grains there were, freely circulated, in spite both of robber and regrater.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

But oh! you've come nigh breaking my heart these three months -- for a worse regrater there never was, an 'couldn' be! "

Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

This treatment had led to his becoming a sort of regrater of other men’s gallantries, to his own aggrandizement as a Corinthian, rather than to the moral profit of his hearers.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874