Knocker-up [Wednesday Word]

Knocker-up, Knocker-upper [noun]  A job in the Victorian era: a human alarm clock

I have read that pea-shooters were another option.

“It’s a ticklish job, with some of the heavy sleepers. They take such a lot of hammering to wake ‘em that the neighbours don’t like it; and he’s been pelted from windows and had water chucked down on him, and all manner of things.” One of the Crowd, aka James Greenwood

with thanks to the Amateur Casual and VictorianLondon.org