Green’s Dictionary of Slang

quarrel picker n.

a glazier.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Quarrel-picker a Glazier.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1874		Manchester Courier 6 Apr. 3/2: It used to be an accepted way of ‘chaffing’ a glazier to call him a ’quarrel picker’.