smuggle, to

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 650 words | Copyright

smuggle, to, to bring goods into a country clandestinely to avoid the payment of duty. Smuggling has a very old history, largely connected with the sea as one of the main highways of trade between countries. During the Revolutionary (1793–1801) and Napoleonic (1803–15) Wars, when Britain was largely cut off from trade with much of Europe, smuggling, particularly in French brandies and lace, became almost an industry, and the British government was forced to maintain a large fleet of fast sailing cutters, known as the preventive service, to attempt to cut off the smugglers before they could reach the shore to land their cargoes.

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