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scuffle hunters

scuffle hunters is the plural of scuffle hunter.

Meaning of scuffle hunter

Noun

scuffle hunter (plural scuffle hunters)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about scuffle hunters

What is scuffle hunters the plural of?
Scuffle hunters is the plural of scuffle hunter.

Words near scuffle hunters in the dictionary

  1. scuffins
  2. scuffle
  3. scuffle hoe
  4. scuffle hoes
  5. scuffle hunter
  6. scuffle hunters
  7. scuffled
  8. scuffler
  9. scufflers
  10. scuffles
  11. scufflin'

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