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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1664
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Outwaterer, n. ? One who puts a boat out to water, in some specific sense. — 1664 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. I. 502.
They could not be liable … they being neither slayers of the fish, nor outwaterers of the boats, nor furnishers of the provision
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