Adam Tiler

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === Adam Tiler (plural Adam Tilers) (idiomatic, archaic, thieves' cant and slang) A pickpocket's accomplice; the person who takes the goods a pickpocket steals and leaves with them. 1823, Tales of my Father, and my Friends, printed for T. and G. Underwood, Fleet Street, and Macredie, Skelly, and Co., Edinburgh; page 90–91: "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 [...]" 1934, Brian Penton, Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch: 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." 1940 (2009 edition), Georgette Heyer, The Corinthian, page 112: "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.' === Anagrams === diametral