scuffle hunter

English

scuffle hunter (plural scuffle hunters)

(now historical) A type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port.
- 1796, Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis:
  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.
- 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head 2017, p. 221:
  Scuffle-hunters were also found as an addition to the thousand or so warehouse labourers storing and dispatching goods from the port to their destination.

单词	scuffle hunter
释义	scuffle hunter English Noun scuffle hunter (plural scuffle hunters) (now historical) A type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port. 1796, Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: 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. 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head 2017, p. 221: Scuffle-hunters were also found as an addition to the thousand or so warehouse labourers storing and dispatching goods from the port to their destination.
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