1736 Canting Dictionary / R / RUM-Diver [rogue]
a compleat or clever Pick-pocket, The same with Files or Bung-nippers. Which see.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Rum Diver in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).