burgess ticket
Scottish
noun
A certificate attesting that a person is a burgess of a particular corporation.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Samuel Rutherford (c1600–1661), Church of Scotland minister and political theorist.
- wrist pin
- wrist shot
- wristwatch
- wristwork
- wristy
- writ
- writable
- write
- write-back
- write-down
- write-in
- write-off
- write-once
- write one's (own) ticket
- write-protect
- writer
- writer-in-residence
- writerly
- writer's block
- writer's cramp
- writer to the Signet
- write someone in
- write something down
- write something off
- write something up