"tide waiter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
          "text": "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter.",
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          "ref": "1726, Jonathan Swift, Reasons against the Bill for settling the Tithe of Hemp, &c. by a Modus",
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        "A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties."
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          "oversee",
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          "land",
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          "goods",
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          "payment",
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        "(UK, historical) A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties."
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        "A person who watches public opinion before declaring their own."
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          "word": "tide surveyor"
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          "merchant",
          "merchant"
        ],
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      "word": "tidewaiter"
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