单词 | scuffle-hunter |
释义 | ˈscuffle-hunter Naut. slang. (See quots.)
1796Colquhoun Police Metrop. (ed. 3) 54 The prevailing practice of discharging and delivering the cargoes of ships by a class of aquatic labourers, known by the name of lumpers and scufflehunters. Ibid. 66 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. 1840Marryat Poor Jack xviii, We've..the Scuffle Hunters, and the River Pirates. |

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