portwatcher has definitions from the field of work
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[ noun ] (work) a watchman on a wharf

Synonyms

port_watcher

Used in print

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

The portwatchers were retired longshoremen and small_time seafarers off towboats and barges who acted_as watchmen on the wharves .

One reason the portwatchers let Sposato take them over was to get the protection of his musclemen .

Related terms

watchman

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