单词 | tackle-house |
释义 | † tackle-housen. Obsolete. Apparently either, A house in which porters employed in loading and unloading ships kept their tackle; or, A house having a tackle or pulley for hoisting heavy goods; a warehouse for lading and unlading merchandise going or coming by sea. In London each of the twelve great Merchant Companies had formerly the right to have its own tackle-house, with its porter or porters, and in some of them the titular office of ‘tackle-house porter’ or ‘tackle-porter’ still survives: see quot. 1861 at Compounds, tackle-porter n. quot. 1909. The tackle-houses at Southwold were on the quay of a creek, evidently for the loading and unloading of vessels lying there; those at London may have been on the river's brink. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > building containing industrial plant > [noun] > types of press house1373 tackle-house1562 press room1696 wheelhouse1883 society > trade and finance > trading place > warehouse > [noun] > for lading or unlading merchandise tackle-house1562 1562 in T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich (1754) 214 My Tackle House at the Woods-End [Southwold]. 1579 Act Common-Council London 15 Aug. (Jrnl. 20, ii. lf. 506) It is thought convenient yt no other tacklehouses or companie of porters shall hereafter be erected without the especiell licence of ye L. Maior, his brethren, and the Counsell. 1606 Act Common-Council London 27 June (Jrnl. 27, lf. 52 b) Complaintes..by freemen porters of the Tacklehouses of the said citie against others streete porters workinge in the said citie, for interdealinge with worke..touchinge shippinge and unshippinge of goodes..with which business the said street porters have not presumed to deal untill of late time. 1607 7 June in Remembrancia (City of London) II. 288 The peticion enclosed..by the Porters of the Tackell Houses of this Cittie, prayinge..Assistance for the preventinge of much inconvenience to growe uppon them through the erection of an newe Office to be established for the ladinge and unladinge..of all Marchantes goodes not free of the twelve Companies. [The petition follows, entitled in margin] ‘A Peticion concerninge the Tacle Porters’. 1618 in T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich (1754) 215 [Southwold] One entire Place, Key or Wharfe, the whole abutting and bounding against..the Tackle-House at the South-East End. 1754 T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich 214 The antient Key stood in the Woods-End-Creek; near thereto were Dwelling-Houses, Warehouses, Tackle-Houses, the Blubber-Pans and Carters-Grounds for Ship-Building. 18421 [see Compounds]. 18422 [see Compounds]. 1861 [see Compounds]. Compounds attributive. tackle-house porter n. originally. A porter belonging to or employed at a tackle-house; later (usually shortened to tackle-porter: see tackle-porter n.) a porter authorized to act as such by one of the London Companies having this right, as distinguished from a ticket-porter who was licensed by the corporation. 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 1606 Act Common-Council London 27 June in Mayhew London Labour (1861) III. 365/1 Tackle-house porter, porter-packer of the gooddes of English merchants, streete-porter, or porter to the packer for the said citie for strangers' goods. 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.]. 1842 Pulling Treat. Laws & Customs London 502 The Tackle-house Porters, who, with their subordinates the Packers' Porters, originally formed a part of the establishment of the principal trading companies, and were attached to their respective tackle-houses, are employed in lading and unlading goods not subject to metage. 1842 Pulling Treat. Laws & Customs London 504 The tackle-house porters are composed of a few persons appointed by the twelve principal companies, to each of which the privilege belonged of having a tackle-house for lading and unlading goods. Each of the companies appoint one person as their tackle-house porter, and some of them two. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 366/1 The tackle-house porters that are still in existence, I was told, are gentlemen. One is a wharfinger, and claims and enjoys the monopoly of labour on his own wharf. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1562 |
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