scuffle hunter
scuffle hunter noun: a type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port.
Noun
scuffle hunter (plural scuffle hunters)
- A type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port.
- Those (who are distinguished by the nick-name of Scuffle-hunters) prowl about the wharfs […], under pretence of asking employment: but their chief object is to pillage and plunder whatever comes in their way.1796, Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
- Scuffle-hunters were also found as an addition to the thousand or so warehouse labourers storing and dispatching goods from the port to their destination.2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 221
Forms of scuffle hunter
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Questions about scuffle hunter
- What does scuffle hunter mean?
- Scuffle hunter means a type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port.
- What part of speech is scuffle hunter?
- Scuffle hunter is a noun.
- What is the plural of scuffle hunter?
- The plural of scuffle hunter is scuffle hunters.
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