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ˈswan-mark
[mark n.1]
An official mark of ownership cut on the beak of a swan, on the occasion of swan-upping.
c1560in Proc. Archæol. Inst., Lincoln (1850) 309 If any person..by sale, or exchaunge have obteined any swan⁓marke, and hath any game of the same. 1586Will of Buckworth (Somerset Ho.), I geue to my son my swannemarke of the hokys in fee symple. 1602–3in Willis & Clark Cambr. (1886) III. 595 Bond for going to St Iues about our swanmarke xijd. 1662–3Ibid., For the Alienacion of the Swanne marke, 00. 07. 08. 1842[see below]. 1883G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxix. (1884) 225 This privilege of swan-mark was a heritable property. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge I. 438 One of the doors..has the College swan-mark engraved upon it.
So ˈswan-ˌmarker, an official who marks swans, a swan-upper; ˈswan-ˌmarking, the operation of marking swans.
1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 372/1 In creating this privilege the crown grants a swan-mark (cygninota), for a game of swans... The swan-markers of the crown and the two Companies [sc. Dyers and Vintners] of the city of London go up the river [Thames] for the purpose of..marking the young birds. 1900Daily News 27 Sept. 5/1 This year's swan-marking. |