单词 | shareman |
释义 | sharemann.ΚΠ 1653 D. Dickson Brief Explic. First 50 Psalms xlv. 308 Sharemen and partakers of all that is given unto him, and joynt heirs with him. 2. A member of the crew of a fishing boat who receives an agreed proportion of the profits of a voyage rather than wages. Cf. sharesman n. 2, share fisherman n. ΚΠ 1687 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony Connecticut (1859) III. 425 Fishermen..shall not presume to break off their voyage..without the consent of the owner, master and share-men. 1820 in C. R. Fay Life & Labour in Newfoundland (1956) viii. 139 Sharemen are frequently indigent planters who have fallen into debt with their merchant and who cannot afford to use their own boats. 1901 Northampton Mercury 4 Oct. 5/6 (headline) The Grimsby deadlock. Sharemen decline arbitration. 1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 26 I was shareman with his father..three summers on the lower Labrador. 2002 P. Frank Yorks. Fisherfolk iv. 67 The designation ‘five-man boat’ refers to the number of share-men, and not to the full complement [of a Yorkshire lugger]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1653 |
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