dirt-dauber

English

Noun

dirt-dauber (plural dirt-daubers)

  1. (obsolete) A common labourer who makes mud walls.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , II.3.3:
      If […] that I am a younger brother, basely born […], of mean parentage, a dirt-dauber’s son, “am I therefore to be blamed?”
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