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From dub + -s- + -man.
dubsman (plural dubsmen)
- (obsolete, slang) A jailer.
1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:[…] C was a Cracksman, that forked all the plate; / D was a Dubsman, who kept the jug-gate. […]
