hebberman
var. of ebberman, Obs.
| 1630 Ord. Preserv. Brood Fish Thames in Descr. Thames (1758) 75 No hebberman shall fish for Smelts before the twenty-fourth Day of August. Ibid. 76 No Hebberman shall work any higher for Whitings than Dartford Creek. 1670 Blount Law Dict., Hebber-man, a Fisherman below London-bridge, who fishes for Whitings, Smelts, &c. commonly at Ebbing-water, and therefore so called. 1839–40 Thackeray Catherine xiv, The ferries across the river, and..the pirates who infest the same—namely tinklermen, petermen, hebbermen, trawlermen. |