Definition of "cadger"

He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, authorized British edition, London: Martin Secker […], published February 1932 (May 1932 printing)

A woman mysteriously sitting up all night in the dark by the smouldering ashes of the kitchen fire, says it's only tramps and cadgers here

1851, Charles Dickens, On Duty with Inspector Field