Adam Tiler

Noun

 * 1)  A pickpocket's accomplice; the person who takes the goods a pickpocket steals and leaves with them.
 * 2) * 1823, Tales of my Father, and my Friends, printed for T. and G. Underwood, Fleet Street, and Macredie, Skelly, and Co., Edinburgh; page 90–91:
 * "In the same way as I got this," showing a handful of silver, "by turning autem diver, or, if you like it better, my Adam tiler."
 * "I do not understand you, Billy!"
 * "Why, an autem diver is a pickpocket who practises in a church, and an Adam tiler his associate, who receives his booty [...]"
 * 1) * 1934, Brian Penton, Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch:
 * He waved his hand. "Well, you know how these sods gas. Most likely there's nothing in it. It's a cert Gursey sank dead on the gutter at the Flat. It'd be hard to prove he was Jem's Adam Tiler."
 * 1) * 1940 (2009 edition), Georgette Heyer, The Corinthian, page 112:
 * "In Mr Yarde's picturesque but somewhat obscure language, he &mdash; er &mdash; tipped the cole to Adam Tiler. Have I that right?'
 * 'How the d-devil should I know?' snapped Brandon.
 * 'You must forgive me. You seem to me to be so familiar with &mdash; er &mdash; thieves and &mdash; er &mdash; swashbucklers, that I assumed that you were conversant also with thieving cant.'