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plural jowters
(archaic) A buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van. quotations
fish drivers , whom we call jowters
1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769
He lifted out the catfish and selected a small carp. They watched the needle swing. The old jowter twisted up the apron in his hands. Two and a half, he said.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 68