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watersider

British  
/ ˈwɔːtəˌsaɪdə /

noun

  1. a wharf labourer

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Was a watersider, so dirty in habits that watersiders complained.

From Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health by New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders

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