scuffle-huntern.
Nautical slang.
(See quots.)
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1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis (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.
1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis (ed. 3) 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.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xviii. 126 We've..the Scuffle Hunters, and the River Pirates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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