Crossword-Solution: CLASSERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

There's a notice by the gangway, an' it seems to come amiss, For it says that second-classers 'ain't allowed abaft o' this'; An' there ought to be a notice for the fellows from abaft -- But the smell an' dirt's a warnin' to the first-salooners, aft; With their tooth and nail-brush, aft, With their cuffs 'n' collars, aft -- Their cigars an' books an' papers, an' their cap-peaks fore-'n'-aft.

The malignant party are even speaking so as the classers and purgers did to us, even so will we do to them.

The department of the "Bremen Cotton Exchange" which deals with questions relating to actual cotton, has a staff of sworn classers.

The sworn classers are nominated by the directors, and concern themselves solely with the classing and arbitrating of cotton.

The open thoroughfare served in lieu of the present exchanges; men made fortunes standing on the curb-stone, and during bank hours the sidewalks were perpetually crowded with cotton factors, buyers, brokers, weighers, reweighers, classers, pickers, pressers, and samplers, and the air was laden with cotton quotations and prognostications.