I'm a clear-Starcher by trade, sir."
"The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation"
J. S. Fletcher
Now, Joseph, said she, I've showed you a lodging-house and a drying-ground; and I'm a cook and a clear-Starcher, and I'm wild to keep lodgers and do for 'em, washing and all.
"Foul Play"
Charles Reade Dion Boucicault
Take my landlady as an example, a charming person, who keeps a straw-hat and umbrella shop, whose sister is a repasseuse, or clear-Starcher, and whose married brother has also a hat-shop next door.
"Holidays in Eastern France"
Matilda Betham-Edwards