Definition of "sneezer"

Hay feverites will be interested to know that Sydney Smith was also a sneezer.

1884, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 23, page 58

In New York and Chicago, laws were passed making it illegal to sneeze or cough in public without using a handkerchief. Police dutifully hauled sneezers and coughers to court, where they were given stiff fines.

2002, Joy Hakim, War, Peace, and All that Jazz, page 22

‘No cure for lads like you, is there?’ he said. ‘Except to throw you in the sneezer.’

1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 200

He has been lagged for beaker hunting, was a mushroom faker, has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer; […]

1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 497

Some person has deprived me of my East Indian silk handkerchief. — What, have you lost your sneezer?

1835, Charles Mathews, Mathews's New Budget of Fun, etc, page 156