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ˈmuster-master Now only Hist.
1. An officer who was responsible for the accuracy of the muster-roll of some portion of an army. Also, in dockyards (see quot. 1815); formerly, in penal settlements, the official charged with keeping the muster-roll of convicts. muster-master general (also chief muster-master): see quot. 1802.
1579Digges Stratiot. 102 He may admonish the Muster Mayster and Treasourer. 1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 24 We haue Muster-masters appointed in euerie Shiere. 1622F. Markham Bk. War iv. i. 122 Muster-Masters..are very odious vnto Captaines; for in seruing of his Prince truly, and in mustering stricktly he wipeth much vndue profit from the Captaine. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. ii. §11 As though he had been Muster-Master-Generall at that great Rendes-vous. 1666Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 190 That all muster-masters lose their places, who shall muster any that have not taken the oaths and the sacrament. 1667Pepys Diary 18 Jan., A letter from the Duke of York commanding our payment of no wages to any of the muster⁓masters of the fleet. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3825/3 Her Majesty has been pleased to constitute the Rt. Hon. the Lord Walden Commissary-General of the Musters, and chief Muster-master of Her Majesty's Forces. 1707Ibid. No. 4310/2 Her Majesty has been..pleased..to..appoint Michael Hyde Esq; Commissary and Mustermaster-General of all the Forces. 1775Mass. Prov. Congr. 6 May (1823) 199 Muster masters in the Massachusetts army, whose business it shall be to pass muster on every soldier that shall be enlisted into said army. 1802C. James Milit. Dict., Muster-master-general, Commissary-general of the Musters, one who takes account of every regiment, their number, horses, arms, &c. 1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney), Muster-master, in royal dock-yards a person appointed by the Navy Board to call over the lists of all his Majesty's ship's companies in the different ports; as also the artificers working on board, in order to prevent false musters. 1896Peterson's Mag. (U.S.) VI. 288/1 Washington directed Colonel James Glover and Muster-Master-General Moyland to co-operate with the Board of Admiralty.
fig.1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 287 Their ringleader, and muster-master father Parsons. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. ii. 449 Lucretius gives us in so exact an account of the several courses the Atoms took up in disposing themselves into bodyes, as though he had been Muster-Master-General at that great Rendes-vous.
¶2. Used incorrectly for ‘drill-sergeant’.
1711Steele Spect. No. 134 ⁋4 A new sort of Muster-master, who teaches Ladies the whole Exercise of the Fan.
Hence ˈmustermastership.
1664–5Pepys Diary 12 Mar., We talked also of getting W. Howe to be put into the Muster-Mastershipp in the roome of Creed. 1763H. Walpole Let. to Earl of Hertford 2 Dec., Mr. Calcraft being turned out yesterday, from some muster-mastership. |