tidesman

English

Etymology

tide +‎ -s- +‎ -man

Noun

tidesman (plural tidesmen)

  1. A customhouse officer who goes on board a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
  2. Synonym of tide waiter (“a person who watches public opinion before declaring their own”)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tidesman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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