(n.) 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.
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Bulker
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(n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
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(1) The response of these three groups of animals to a diet diluted with 20% alpha cell, a nonnutritive bulker, showed an initial failure to meter calories by both VMN and DMN rats which, however, was compensated for during the remainder of the 24-hr test period.
(2) Levander said the technology would be used on cargo cable ferries (which are guided across rivers on cables) within the next couple of years, "but the real benefit will be in ocean going tankers and bulkers", where remote control would cut operating costs by up to 30%.
(3) However, it is still an effective stool bulker and acts mainly by increasing faecal water by some unknown mechanism.