magazinern.

1695 tr. C. Moscheni Brutes turn'd Criticks lix. 162 The Magaziners are very cunning at Venice, in shewing their Chapmen a pair of heels, but they must yield themselves out-done by my Arithmetician.

1713 Acct. South-west Barbary iv. 51 Those that are able to Work, become his Magaziners, and are maintained at his Expence.

1721 J. Braithwaite Hist. Revol. Morocco 163 The King's Magaziners..are Horse-Troops, who gather in the King's Part, and lay it up in Storehouses, for the Use of the Emperor and his Troops.

1737 Mem. Soc. Grub-St. I. Pref. p. xxii In exposing thus..the practices of these Literary Pirates in general, and of the Magaziners in particular, we have been still pursuing the main end and design of our Journal.

1759 Weekly Mag. 29 Dec. p. ii All the difference between us and our brother magaziners.

1762 O. Goldsmith in Lloyd's Evening Post 8–10 Feb. 142/1 If a Magaziner be dull upon the Spanish War, he soon has us up again with the Ghost in Cock-lane.

1822 Portfolio Mar. 255 The remaining stock..of the Literary Gazette..produced but 6¼ cents per pound! This is a warning to magaziners, which makes us tremble.

1834 Fraser's Mag. 9 124 Considering Macaulay as a magaziner, his papers in Knight's Quarterly were in general full of talent.

1919 B. Tarkington Let. 9 May in On Plays (1959) 11 You certainly have made a whooping start as a magaziner.

2004 Times 10 Jan. 93/1 The annual opportunity came round to unleash us magaziners to the four corners of the earth.