jowter

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jowter (plural jowters)

  1. (archaic) A buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van.
    • 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. [], new edition, London: [] B. Law, []; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:
      fish drivers , whom we call jowters
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 68:
      He lifted out the catfish and selected a small carp. They watched the needle swing. The old jowter twisted up the apron in his hands. Two and a half, he said.

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jowter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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