Usage examples (6)

• 'tidewaiter'; and, as we know, the greatest poet of the day could only be rewarded by making him an exciseman.
• Madras, and now he is a third class assistant tidewaiter in the Imperial
• From the noblemen who held the white staff and the great seal, down to the humblest tidewaiter and gauger, what would now be called gross corruption was practiced...
• Leaving the army, C. held for a time a commission in the mounted constabulary of Madras, and now he is a third class assistant tidewaiter in the Imperial Maritime...