单词 | tindal |
释义 | tindaln.1 East India. 1. A native petty officer of lascars, on board ship, or in the ordnance department; also the foreman of a gang of labourers on public works (Yule); a boatswain; a foreman. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > boatswain boatswainOE boatsman1513 bosun1592 tindal1698 contre-master1726 serang1799 Pipes1818 Spithead nightingale1890 bose1912 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 107 The Captain is called Nucquedah, the Boatswain Tindal. 1778 R. Orme Hist. Mil. Trans. Brit. Nation II. 339 One Tindal, or corporal of the Lascars. 1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 93 A detachment of gun lascars, consisting of 1 tindal and 20 lascars. 1803 R. Percival in Naval Chron. 10 26 Each of the boats carries..a tindal, or chief boat-man, who acts as pilot. 1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India x. 343 The ‘Tindal’, or superintendent of the coolies, was dismissed. 1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 23 Our Tindal jumped out on the bank, on which was not four feet water. 2. A personal attendant: see quots. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] thanea700 yeoman1345 squirec1380 foot followera1382 handservanta1382 servitora1382 ministera1384 servera1425 squire of (or for) the body (or household)1450 attender1461 waitera1483 awaiter1495 tender?a1505 waiting-man1518 satellite?1520 attendant1555 sitter-byc1555 pediseque1606 asseclist?1607 tendant1614 assecle1616 fewterera1625 escudero1631 peon1638 wait1652 under spur-leather1685 body servant1689 slavey1819 tindal1859 maid-attendant1896 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 36 Almost every one who visits the Hills keeps a servant called a tindal. His duty is to look after the men who carry your janpan, to go errands, to keep up the fire. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 40 My tindal aroused me at eleven, and informed me that a young man wished to see me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † tindaln.2 Obsolete. See quots. ΚΠ 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 22 [At Billingsgate] Sprats are sold on board the ships by the bushel. A ‘tindal’ is a thousand bushels of sprats. 1863 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Tindal, a thousand bushels of sprats. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11698n.21859 |
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