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scowbanker
ˈscowbanker slang (? and dial.). Also 8 scou-, -bancker, 9 skow-, skull-. [Of obscure origin. Adm. Smyth (Sailor's Word-bk., 1867) gives a word scow-banker with the explanation ‘a manager of a scow’; but this is prob. a mistake.] A loafer (see quots.). Also, † one who engages in unfair business prac...
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skow
▪ I. † scow, skow, n.1 Sc. Obs. [Possibly a. Du. schouw (see next) in an unrecorded sense; the HG. etymological equivalent, schalte, has in Bavarian dialects the sense ‘wood for coopers, thin laths’ (Deutsches Wb. s.v.).] pl. Strips of wood for wattle-work, barrel-staves, fixing thatch, etc.1524–5 B...
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coaster
coaster (ˈkəʊstə(r)) Also 7 coster. [f. coast v. + -er.] 1. One who sails along the coast; the master or pilot of a coasting-vessel.1574 Bourne Regiment for Sea 7 b, It behoveth him too be a good coaster. a 1642 Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 341/1, I give the Name both of Pilot and Coaster ...
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