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WIPER-Drawer,

a Handkerchief-stealer. He drew a broad, narrow, cam, or speck'd Wiper; He pick'd Pockets of a broad, or narrow, Ghenting, Cambrick, or colour'd Handkerchief.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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WIND-Mills in the Head
WINK
WINNINGS
WIPE
WIPER
WIPER-Drawer
WIRE-Draw
WISE Man of Gotham
To WIT
The WIT
WITCHER

Nearby:

Wiper Drawer in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).