jowster

plural jowsters

1. CornwallhistoricalAn itinerant seller or hawker, especially of fish.

   Presently the jowsters began to bawl out questions to the men who were gathered rather sullenly on deck.

   1891, Joseph Henry Pearce, Inconsequent Lives, page 33

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   The jowsters come down with their carts on to the beach, and hawk them about round the neighborhood—I've seen them twelve a penny; while in the curing-houses they're bulking them and pressing them as if for dear life, to send away to Genoa, Leghorn, and Naples.

   1893, Grant Allen, Michael's Crag