| 单词 | society of the tackle-house and ticket porters |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSociety of the Tackle-house and Ticket Porters 1. A member of a body of porters in the City of London who were licensed by the Corporation; originally called street-porters, and distinct from the tackle-house n. porters of the twelve great Merchant Companies; in later times the two classes of porters were united in the Society of the Tackle-house and Ticket Porters. Now Historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of wine-porter1580 street porter1606 tackle-house porter1606 tackle-porter1607 sealed porter1631 ticket-porter1646 tub-woman1660 keep-door1682 Suisse1763 bamboo-coolie1800 hop-porter1812 plyer1826 night porter1841 fellowship1864 hall-porter1883 mobber1892 redcap1903 badgeman1904 bummaree1954 1646 Act Com. Council conc. Tackle-house Porters (1712) 9 Whereas divers Controversies and Differences have heretofore been between the Tacklehouse-Porters of this City, and the Ticket-Porters, otherwise called the Street-Porters of this City in and about several Matters [etc.]. 1770 New Guide London 257 Ticket-porters are all freemen, and their business is to load and ship off goods exported or imported. Also to house merchants' goods, metals, &c. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 328 The Ticket-Porters are persons appointed by the City of London... They give Security in 100l. for Fidelity, and have their Names and Numbers on a Metal Badge. 1833 Rep. Court Com. Council (London) on Porters 12 Dec. 4 The Ticket Porters..are entitled to the work or labour of unshipping, landing, carrying, loading, and housing all goods, wares and merchandize imported into the port of London from the several places mentioned in the Act of Common Council, 27th March, 1798, and also of shipping all goods, wares, and merchandize; and they are likewise entitled, by custom and usage, to perform the work at the public markets of this City. 1833 Rep. Court Com. Council (London) on Porters 12 Dec. 4 We were..attended..by the Rulers and Registers of the Society of Tackle-house and Ticket Porters. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiii. 120 The ticket-porter..always ran officiously before, to open Mr. Dombey's office door. < as lemmas |
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