| 单词 | search house |
| 释义 | > as lemmassearch house search house n. now historical a building or office in which searches of people, baggage, etc., are conducted, esp. at a custom house or at a diamond mine; = searching house n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth > room or building search housec1530 long room1642 toll-room1749 c1530 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 39 All our cariage was had home to the serch house, where all my Master's apparail and the gentlemens, with the rest of the servaunts were serched to th' uttermost. 1832 Satirist 11 Mar. 83/3 Let there be a search-house at every port, so placed that it cannot be passed by, by passengers from packets, &c. 1878 Belgravia Sept. 283 It is many years since, by the rectification of the frontier between Austria and Bavaria, the nuisance of the search-house was transferred from Achensee to Achenwald. 1987 R. V. Turrell Capital & Labour Kimberley Diamond Fields 1871–1890 139 All mineworkers now had to go through the search houses on entry to and exit from the mines. < as lemmas |
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