hoveller
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]hoveller (plural hovellers)
- (UK, dialect) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
- 1839, George Payne Rainsford James, Charles Tyrrell: Or, The Bitter Blood:
- How it was that the fishermen, and hovellers, and smugglers got an inkling of what we were about, I don't know.
- A small boat used on the coast.
References
[edit]“hoveler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.