noun
definition
An officer employed to collect excise duty (excise tax), and to enforce excise laws.
Examples of excisemen in a Sentence
They had now to satisfy the imperial tax-farmers and excisemen, as well as their feudal lords.
Thus the indirect taxes of customs and excise which the Federal government imposes are levied by Federal custom-house collectors and excisemen, and the judgments of Federal courts are carried out by United States marshals distributed over the country.
He took a vigorous share in the debates of a local Whig club, and in 1772, he wrote a pamphlet embodying the grievances of excisemen and supporting their demands for an increase of pay.