Both Uses of
pauper
in
Silas Marner
- What with mortgages and arrears, I'm as short o' cash as a roadside pauper.
Chpt 1.9 *pauper = person who is very poor
- There was a pauper's burial that week in Raveloe, and up Kench Yard at Batherley it was known that the dark-haired woman with the fair child, who had lately come to lodge there, was gone away again.
Chpt 1.14pauper = someone who is very poor
Definition:
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(pauper) someone who is very poor