A monopolist or usurer. A great merchant. A person given to underhanded practices for the sake of gain. Chiefly used to mean an unscrupulous lawyer.
"The baser sorte of people are verie litigious by meanes wherof the Foggers and Pettie Lawiers gett unto themselves great advantage."
John Norden, Speculum Britanniae; Cornwall (1610).
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