'tidewaiter'; and, as we know, the greatest poet of the day could only be rewarded by making him an exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference

Madras, and now he is a third class assistant tidewaiter in the Imperial.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

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 without disguise and without reproach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference

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 Customs of China, with a salary as low as his spirits are high.    From Wordnik.com.  [AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA]

It is true enough that a long course of corruption, beginning with the perjured peer and ending with the tidewaiter, had created a class of conditional loyalists, with nine-tenths of which the condition is always unfulfilled; while, in its very fulfilment, the other one-tenth has found but bitterness, the "sauce piquante" of their daily bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848] Reference

Down the river there is a tidewaiter who was formerly professor of French in the Imperial University of St. Petersburg; and here in Chungking, filling the same humble post, is the godson of a marquis and the nephew of an earl, a brave soldier whose father is a major-general and his mother an earl's daughter, and who is first cousin to that enlightened nobleman and legislator the Earl of C.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference