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smuggler|ˈsmʌglə(r)|
Also 7 smuckellor, smuckler.
[ad. LG. smukkeler, Du. smokkelaar, or LG. smugg(e)ler (G. schmuggler, Sw. smugglare): see smuggle v.1]
1. One who smuggles commodities; esp. one who makes a trade or practice of smuggling.
1661Proclamation 9 Aug., A sort of leud people called Smuckellors, never heard of before the late disordered times, who make it their trade..to steal and defraud His Majesty of His Customs. 1670Blount Glossogr. (ed. 3), Smuglers, are stealers of Customs; well known upon the Thames. 1740Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 289 He declared before us all that he was a Smuggler. 1779Mirror No. 62, He had served with eclat in the corps established for repressing smugglers of tobacco. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vi. iii, Smugglers of salt go openly in armed bands. 1870F. R. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 36 It had the reputation..of being the haunt of smugglers.
transf.1790Burke Fr. Rev. 134 The infectious stuff which is imported by the smugglers of adulterated metaphysics. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe VIII. l. §30. 150 An immense annual profit for the behoof of the great Imperial Smuggler in the Tuileries.
2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
1799Naval Chron. II. 443 The Assistance Smuggler, from Guernsey. 1836Marryat Pirate, etc. (Rtldg.) 164 This vessel..must be a smuggler. 1894K. Hewat Little Scottish World i. 12 The casks landed from the smuggler were safely deposited.
3. attrib. and Comb., as smuggler boat, smuggler devil, smuggler dogger, smuggler-hunting.
1776Ann. Reg. 135 His majesty's sloop Princess Anne fell in with a smuggler dogger in the frith of Forth. 1815Scott Guy M. xlv, Thae smuggler deevils. 1862Thornbury Turner I. 333 He beat about year after year in all sorts of smuggler boats. 1899Somerville & Ross Irish R.M. 202 He had taken up the unprofitable task of smuggler-hunting. |