单词 | suttle |
释义 | † suttleadj. Commerce. Obsolete. Of weight, after tare, or tret, has been deducted. In quot. 1695 quasi-n. by ellipsis. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] > (of weight) after tare deducted suttle1596 subtle1622 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. sig. Aiiij/1 The rekenynge of grocery and weight sobtyll & grosse.] 1596 J. Mellis Record's Ground of Artes iii. viii. 486 At 16ll the 100 suttle, what shall 895ll suttle be worth in giuing 4ll weight vppone euery 100 for treate? 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. iv. 33 The diuision of the pound weight for wares, and the correspondence of the hundreth pound, compared to the 100 ll Suttle of Antuerp [cf. p. 22 Subtle]. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. iv. 22 The Custome of Antuerp is to weigh by the hundreth pounds euen weight called Subtle, for the which commonly there is allowed at the weigh-house 101 ll. 1636 in E. B. Sainsbury Cal. Court Minutes E. India Co. (1907) 203 500. wt. subtle of pepper. 1660 T. Willsford Scales of Comm. 107 What those gross or subtile summes do make in pence.] 1695 E. Hatton Merchant's Mag. 100 In such Commodities wherein Trett is allowed, the Remainer, after the Tare is deducted is called Suttle, out of which Suttle the allowance for Trett is made. 1764 C. Hutton Schoolmaster's Guide (1766) 72 What remains after the tare is taken from the gross, may be called tare-suttle, if there be more deductions... What remains after tret is deducted, may be called tret-suttle, if there be any following deduction. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs i 13 Suppose 20 casks of Gentian weigh 120 cwt. 2 qrs. 18 lbs. gross, how many suttle pounds will they contain? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2021). suttlev. Obsolete or archaic. a. intransitive. To carry on the business of a sutler. Chiefly in verbal noun suttling. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > supply with food [verb (intransitive)] > supply with provisions suttle1648 cater1828 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Zoetelen, to Suttle [1678 sutle], or to Victuall. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 69 He [sc. a gunner] can no more abstain from sutling on board, and running Goods a-shore, than he can refrain from talking Bawdy in modest Company. 1757 G. Washington Writings (1889) I. 467 To prevent irregular suttling. 1787 Ld. Nelson 29 Dec. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 263 I have been obliged to punish him for suttling to the Ship's Company and making numbers of them drunk. 1904 Athenæum 10 Sept. 339/3 Dismissed for dishonest greed—for suttling, false musters, or turning their ships into merchantmen. b. in verbal noun suttling used attributively, esp. in suttling-house n. a house where food and drink are supplied, esp. to soldiers; also suttling booth, suttling department, suttling place, suttling shop. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant eating-housec1440 feast house?c1475 victualling-house1541 cookshop1542 cookhouse1548 feasting house1563 treating-house1680 suttling-house1691 shop1695 chop shop1733 restaurateur1782 slap-bang shop1785 restorator1797 dinner house1803 restaurant1806 snack-house1820 grubbery1823 refreshment house1825 restauration1832 trattoria1832 slap-bang1836 ristorante1874 tavern-restaurant1880 foodery1892 eatery1901 taverna1914 chop-house1915 nosh1917 diner1924 noshery1952 ryotei1953 lokanta1954 Chinesery1956 relais routier1960 hotel1968 tratt1969 robata1975 fast foodery1979 Chinky1981 rodizio1981 taqueria1982 resto1988 paladar1994 society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > [noun] > provision or procurement of supplies > supplies > ration > canteen suttling-house1691 canteen1744 1691 London Gaz. No. 2653/4 Mr. Creggs at the Suttling-House in the Savoy. 1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 260. ⁋3 She came to him in the Disguise of a Suttling Wench, with a Bottle of Brandy under her Arm. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 197/1 The suttling house at the Tilt Yard, Whitehall. 1777 J. Howard State of Prisons (1780) iv. 110 No sutling place to be kept in this house of correction. 1809 General J. Wilkinson Speech in Congress 19 June (1853) 2439 I shall make such arrangements in the sutling department as entirely to exclude the use of ardent spirits which have been the bane of the service. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 111 Suttling-booths..appeared now on the Thames. 1832 J. Campbell Mem. I. ii. 35 He..set up a suttling-shop with the money. a1833 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1845) 265 We entered the parlour of the ‘Canteen’, that being the sign of the suttling-house of the Palace [Hampton Court]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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