Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tidewaiter

Tidewaiter , noun

A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. — Swift

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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