'Knocker-up' is a person who should walk around town knocking at the door or window to wake people up to work. Until the 1920s this job kind was considered a profession in Britain.
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"M. Smith earned 6 pence a week as a knocker-upper using a pea shooter to shoot dried peas at the windows of sleeping workers in East London, 1930s"
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