Tramp

A tramp is a long term/habitual homeless person who travels as a vagrant. Often they will move from place to place taking up odd jobs. Become a popular description for itinerant homeless people in 19th Century America but has its roots in the American Civil War. "Professional Hobo."

–Adrie Rappa

Byron Bunch, describing Joe Christmas: "He looked like a tramp, yet not like a tramp either" (LIA 31).