| 单词 | water clerk |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater clerk water clerk n. †(a) (apparently) an official with responsibility for water supply (obsolete rare); (b) a clerk from a shipowner's or agent's office, who boards an arriving ship. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > ship-chandler > assistant water clerk1689 1689 R. Hooke Diary 22 Apr. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. (1935) X. 115 Spake with Water-clerk in Barth[olomews] Lane to Mr Gofs about the water. 1845 Times 1 Oct. 9/2 (advt.) Wanted, a water clerk, at an outport in the English Channel. 1898 Barbados Freight Rep. in F. Holm-Petersen Fra Sejl til Diesel (1951) I. 335 Our Water Clerk will meet the Vessels on their entering the bay. 1973 P. Theroux Saint Jack xiii. 156 I knew my job as a water-clerk..and pored over the shipping pages of the Straits Times. 2014 Medway Messenger (Nexis) 21 Feb. I used to hire the Grey Motor Launch Company as linesmen for cargo ships at Crown Wharf where I was a ship's agent or water clerk back in the early nineties. < as lemmas |
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