单词 | prime gilt |
释义 | prime giltn. Scottish. Now chiefly historical. = primage n.1 ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > sailor's pay > additional payments primage1476 prime gilt1576 pinch-gut money1660 hat money1676 conduct-money1702 hard line money1886 hard-lying money1890 hard lyers1916 1576 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 54 The pryme-giltt, quhilk was gevin be the liberaltie of merchantis, hes bene in all tymes past vplifted and spent be the marinaris in vane and wicked vses. c1580 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 187 To be furit to..Deip in France for the fraucht of xxvjs. and xvjs. the mort chairge frie of all uther chairges except pryme gilt. 1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 668/2 Þe prymgilt To be vplifted for sustentatioun Of the pure and decayit Marineris wtin The said toun of leith. 1633 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1817) V. 93/2 Grantit..the indraucht thairof and prymegilt of all shipes coming to the said port. 1696 in H. Armet Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1962) XII. 189 As also that the masters of the Fraternity hospital hade sett ane tack of the duty of the prime gilt to George Dundas in Leith. 1711 D. Robertson Bailies of Leith (1915) 152 Did in 1656 and 1701 mitigate the forsaid twelve pennies per tun of primegilt to a mans full burden of great coalls to be furthwith paid out of every tuenty deall of coalls. 1722 A. Pennecuik Hist. Blue Blanket 102 And dispones to them the prime Gilt to be uplifted for sustaining of poor indigent Sea-Men within the said Village of Leith. 1787 Farther Proc. Burgesses Aberdeen p. lxxvi To J. Buchan in part of prime gilt process. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 763 The shipmasters and mariners of Leith had been in the practice of receiving certain duties and stipends, called Prime Gilt of all Scotch ships loaded within Leith. 1929 Times 25 Oct. 17/4 Miss Isabella Salmond..left personal estate in Great Britain... She left..£500..to..the Prime Gilt Box Society. 2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 5 Jan. 5 The Incorporation's origins date to 1380, when the guild was founded to provide relief for poor, infirm and aged mariners, raising money via a ‘prime gilt’ tax. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1576 |
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