different between jowter vs sowter

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jowter (plural jowters)

(archaic) A buyer and seller of fish, usually operating from a cart or a van.
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- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.68:
  He lifted out the catfish and selected a small carp. They watched the needle swing. The old jowter twisted up the apron in his hands. Two and a half, he said.

sowter (plural sowters)

Obsolete form of souter.
- 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd
  The tailleur and the sowter

sowter m

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