单词 | portledge |
释义 | † portledgen. North American. Nautical. Obsolete. An amount of space or weight on board a ship allowed to a mariner for his own cargo in lieu of wages, enabling him to make a personal profit through trade; (hence) a mariner's wages; = portage n.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [noun] > trading venture or speculation > an act of > specific types portage1500 portledge1636 land-jobbing1781 1636 N. Hawkins Let. 28 June in J. P. Baxter Documentary Hist. Maine (1884) III. 95 I think we shall make little lesse then £11 share for the last yeares worke, which was £6 portledge, and £1 3s. 3d. for the fish deliuered Mr. Winter, and £3 you promised me for my Charge in Bringinge ouer the shippe. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1639 J. Winter Acct. 29 Nov. in J. P. Baxter Documentary Hist. Maine (1884) III. 185/2 Eduard Trebie..Creditor for his ½ share for his portledge monye 2 5 0. C2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > furnishing with crew > crew lists portledge bill1668 portage bill1743 station bill1800 fire bill1804 watch-bill1813 1668 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1853) IV. ii. 390 The masters..shall make cleere agreem[en]ts wth. their marriners & officers for their wages, & those agreements enter into a booke,..a copy whereof the master, as a portlege bill, shall leaue wth. their owners. 1735 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston 280 All his Hands..being number'd were found to be according to his Portlidge Bill. 1775 Mass. Arch. CCVI. 94 To amount of Mens wages as per Portledg Bill 56. 17. 11½. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1636 |
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