Adam Tiler

Definition

A pickpocket's accomplice; the person who takes the goods a pickpocket steals and leaves with them.

Example Sentences

• ""In the same way as I got this," showing a handful of silver, "by turning autem diver, or, if you like it better, my Adam tiler." "I do not understand you, Billy!" "Why, an autem diver is a pickpocket who practises in a church, and an Adam tiler his associate, who receives his booty …""
• "He waved his hand. "Well, you know how these sods gas. Most likely there's nothing in it. It's a cert Gursey sank dead on the gutter at the Flat. It'd be hard to prove he was Jem's Adam Tiler.""
• ""In Mr Yarde's picturesque but somewhat obscure language, he — er — tipped the cole to Adam Tiler. Have I that right?' 'How the d-devil should I know?' snapped Brandon. 'You must forgive me. You seem to me to be so familiar with — er — thieves and — er — swashbucklers, that I assumed that you were conversant also with thieving cant.'"