单词 | crimpage |
释义 | crimpagen. Now historical. 1. More fully crimpage money. A payment made to a crimp for his services. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services barber feec1380 alnage1418 school fee1512 pinlocka1525 warden-fee1531 wait fee1563 fullage1611 pipe-moneya1637 marriage money1674 sharping-corn1681 spy-money1713 crimpage1732 cooperage1755 stirrup money1757 stub-money1776 membership fee1860 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > commission provision1589 brokage-money1591 factorage1599 brokerage1622 commission1658 crimpage1732 commish1856 1732 Exact Abridgem. All Statutes VII. 156 Nothing in this Act shall extend to hinder..any Master, or Owners of any Ship using the Coal-Trade, from imploying Crimps or Factors,..to sell or dispose of their Loadings of Coals, or pay them the Crimpage or Factorage, as hath usually been paid. 1755 Stow's Survey of London (ed. 6) II. v. xiv. 319/1 Any Coal owner may employ..Crimps or Factors..to dispose of their Loadings, and pay them Crimpage or Factorage. 1794 Proc. Old Bailey 15 Jan. 868/2 Come to Black Wall and get a ship for me, and you will have crimpage money for me. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xvi. 528 The Captain pays them two guineas crimpage. 1868 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. (Portsmouth) 14 Nov. 7/2 They were shipped by a system of crimpage payment to the greatest set of scoundrels unhung. 1925 M. D. George London Life in XVIII Cent. vi. 312 The crimps then procured another ship for their victims and received the crimpage money from the captain. 2. = crimping n.2 ΚΠ 1815 Eclectic Rev. May 448 The system of crimpage cannot, perhaps, be defended upon principles of morality. 1850 Liverpool Mercury 30 Jan. 3/4 The sailor shall be abandoned to all the frauds to which the crimpage system subjects him. 1910 W. Smart Econ. Ann. 19th Cent. xv. 285 The iniquitous trade of crimpage was abolished. 1956 J. H. Parry & P. M. Sherlock Short Hist. W. Indies vii. 108 The frequency with which the item ‘crimpage’ occurs in slaving accounts indicates the methods to which slavers often had to resort in order to make up their complement of seamen. 1990 D. J. Starkey Brit. Privateering Enterprise in 18th Cent. x. 263 Accordingly, crimpage was widely used by merchant shipowners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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