单词 | custom house station |
释义 | > as lemmascustom house station a. General attributive, as custom house duty, custom house man, custom house station, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. v. 13 It should be sufficient for him to Register an invoice of his Cargazon in the Custom-House Book. 1660 T. Watson Beatitudes 467 He was a Custome-house man. 1771 R. Cumberland West Indian i. v. 7 The whole tribe of custom-house extortioners, boat-men, tide-waiters and water-bailiffs. 1832 Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 10th Parl.) 4 3416/1 The petition..for the repeal of the Customs-house duty on licences for boats employed in the fishing-trade. 1838 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 8 37 At 16m. [along the road,] Ráhdárí, or Custom-house station. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 8/2 The Custom House authorities have given notice that on and after October 1 their officers will have instructions to weigh and tare packages of tea to the half-pound. 1931 A. P. Wadsworth & J. De Lacy Mann Cotton Trade & Industr. Lancs. 151 The bejutapauts, negannepauts, nicconees,..and more than twenty other varieties mentioned in the Custom House Accounts were all coarse cottons in different colours. 1985 Times of India 28 Feb. 11/1 (heading) Customs house men end strike. 2003 J. Bannister Rule of Admirals iv. 129 In 1772, for example, local merchants refused to pay the customs house fees at St. John's. < as lemmas |
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