noun.
A man stationed on a cliff or an eminence to look out for shoals of herrings or pilchards, and signal the direction taken by them.
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noun.
One who, or that which, balks.
noun.
A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.