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TIDEWAITER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a : an officer in various preventive customs services who boards ships and watches the landing of goods b : any customs inspector working at dockside or ...
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tide-waiter, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun tide-waiter is in the early 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for tide-waiter is from 1700, in the writing ...
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tide waiter - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · (UK, historical) A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties. · 1892, ...
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tide-waiter
ˈtide-ˌwaiter 1. A customs officer who awaited the arrival of ships (formerly coming in with the tide), and boarded them to prevent evasion of the custom-house regulations. Now Hist.1699 Farquhar Constant Couple i. i, These tidewaiters and surveyors plague us more with the French wines, than the war...
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TIDEWAITER definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
(formerly) a customs officer who boarded and inspected incoming ships.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828 - Tide-waiter
TI'DE-WAITER, noun [tide and waiter.] An officer who watches the landing of goods, to secure the payment of duties. Websters Dictionary 1828.
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William Finlay (mayor)
He remained in Albany working as a clerk of customs and a tide waiter and also served as a municipal councillor.
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TIDEWAITER Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Tidewaiter definition: a customs officer who checks goods upon a vessel's landing, to secure the payment of duties.. See examples of TIDEWAITER used in a ...
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"TIDE WAITER": Customs officer watching incoming ships - OneLook
noun: (UK, historical) A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties.
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Dictionary of Old Occupations - T - Family Tree Researcher
Tidesman: alternate term for a Tide Waiter, a customs official who boarded ships to collect duty and check for smuggled goods. Tier Boy: employed at a print ...
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Tide-waiter Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Tide-waiter Definition ... Formerly, a customs inspector at a seaport. Wiktionary. Other Word Forms of Tide-waiter. Noun. Singular: tide-waiter. Plural: tide ...
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Tide Waiters, Strong Backs and Black Pan, The Early Working Life of ...
One of the local jobs related to the mill was Customs Officer. These workers were called tide waiters; they had to wait for the tide to bring ...
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tidesman
tidesman (ˈtaɪdzmən) Also 8–9 tideman. † 1. = tide-waiter 1. Obs.1667 Lond. Gaz. No. 194/4 Discovered by some of the Customehouse Tydes-men upon the Watch. 1773 Earl Carlisle in Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) III. 46 Thank Charles for the Tideman's place. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 135 Tides men or ti...
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Harry Wollaston
In 1863 he joined the Victorian Department of Trade and Customs as a tide surveyor and landing waiter.
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waiter
waiter (ˈweɪtə(r)) Forms: 4 weyter, 4–5 waytar, 4–7 wayter, 5 waytere, 5–7 waitor, waytor, 6 waighter, waitour, water, weighter, (Sc. vyttar), 6– waiter. [Orig. a. AF. *waitour, OF. weitteor, gaiteor, agent-n. f. weitier, gaitier wait v.1 In later use f. wait v.1 + -er1.] I. † 1. One who watches, or...
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