the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A packman or itinerant huckster.
n. One who gets his living by trickery or begging.
n. One who carries hawks on a cadge.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Originally, a carrier; a packman.
n. One who carries butter, eggs, poultry, etc., to market from the country; an itinerant huckster or hawker.
n. A person who gets a living by begging: as, “the gentleman cadger,”
n. The bearer or carrier of hawks.
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n. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
Word Usage
"I do not know precisely what 'cadger' means, but I imagine it to be a character like me, liable to headache, to sea-sickness, to all the infirmities 'that flesh is heir to,' and a few others besides; the friends and relations of cadgers should therefore use all soft persuasions to induce them to remain at home."