pot-wallopers

"For the head of a house that raided seven head of cattle from the innocent pot-wallopers of Northam, isn't that rather a sweeping statement?" said Macrae.

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

Ancient pot-wallopers, and thriving shopkeepers, in their intervals of leisure, stood at their shop-doors -- their toes hanging over the edge of the step, and their obese waists hanging over their toes -- and in discourses with friends on the pavement, formulated the course of the improvident, and reduced the children's prospects to a shadow-like attenuation.

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

'Here I am once more a constituent part of the legislative wisdom of the United Kingdom, thanks to the patriotic discretion of the pot-wallopers, burgage-tenants, and ten-pound freeholders of these loyal towns.

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

‘Here I am once more a constituent part of the legislative wisdom of the United Kingdom, thanks to the patriotic discretion of the pot-wallopers, burgage-tenants, and ten-pound freeholders of these loyal towns.

The Three Clerks 2004

Such, finally, is the struggle which the middle classes in England are maintaining against an aristocracy of mere locality, against an aristocracy, the principle of which is to invest a hundred drunken pot-wallopers in one place, or the owner of a ruined hovel in another, with powers which are withheld from cities renowned to the furthest ends of the earth for the marvels of their wealth and of their industry. "[

English: Composition and Literature 1899