"scuffle hunter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1796, Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis:",
          "text": "Those (who are distinguished by the nick-name of Scuffle-hunters) prowl about the wharfs […], under pretence of asking employment: but their chief object is to pillage and plunder whatever comes in their way.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 221:",
          "text": "Scuffle-hunters were also found as an addition to the thousand or so warehouse labourers storing and dispatching goods from the port to their destination.",
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        "A type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port."
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        "(now historical) A type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port."
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  "word": "scuffle hunter"
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