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▪ I. warehouse, n.|ˈwɛəhaʊs|
[f. ware n.3 + house n. Cf. Du. warenhuis, G. warenhaus.]
1. a. A building or part of a building used for the storage of merchandise; the building in which a wholesale dealer keeps his stock of goods for sale; a building in which furniture or other property is housed, a charge being made for the accommodation; a government building (more fully bonded warehouse) in which dutiable imported goods are kept in bond until it is convenient to the importer to pay the duty.
1349Will of W. Erl in Red Register of Lynn (MS.) fol. 85, j seldam cum..duobus warehouses. 1453Marg. Paston in P. Lett. I. 256, I kowd not gette no grawnt of hym to have the warehows. 1522More De quat. Noviss. Wks. (1557) 94 Let them here what Christ saith in the ghospell to the ryche couetous gatherer, yt thoughte to make his barnes and his warehouses larger to laye in the more. 1530Palsgr. 286/2 Warehouse to shewe marchandyse in, une monstre a marchandise. 1535Coverdale Jer. xl. 10 Therfore gather you wyne, corne and oyle, and kepe them in youre ware houses. 1539T. Pery in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 140, I so beinge in my ware howsse bessy, ther yentrede in a pryste. 1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. i. 6 The first suit of apparell that euer mortall man put on, came neither from the Mercers shop, nor the Merchants ware-house. 1632Massinger City Madam i. iii, Their prayers will..keep your ware-houses From fire, or quench 'em with their tears. 1660in Verney Mem. (1894) III. x. 375 My Mr. was all the while in the Warehouse with him wch brought y⊇ Silke. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iii. Wks. 1851 III. 95 Some who had bin call'd from shops and warehouses..fell to huckster the Commonwealth. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 416 It is the retailer and petty shop-keeper..that must supply the demands of the public: importation is not their business, but to resort to the warehouse, and retail out the goods as received from thence. 1799Local Act 39 Geo. III, c. 58 §4 Every Box, Basket, Packet, Parcel [etc.]..brought to any Inn, Ware⁓house, or other Place, by any Public Stage Coach. 1840Act 3 & 4 Vict. c. 17 §2 Spirits..in Warehouse under Her Majesty's Locks. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. i. 11 We have around us the wholesale ‘warehouses’ and offices wherein is transacted all the business between the dealers, the manufacturers, the spinners, the bleachers, the calico-printers. 1848Dickens Dombey xlvi, A packer's warehouse, and a bottle-maker's warehouse. 1918Act 8 & 9 Geo. V, c. 15 §7 Tobacco exported from Great Britain..or deposited in a bonded or King's warehouse.
b. transf. and fig.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God vi. vii. 246 As Budæus calleth the worke in his Mercuries seller, or Minerua's ware⁓house [i.e. Παλλάδος ταµιεῖον]. 1612Rowlands Knave of Spades E 2 b, His richest ware-house is a greasie pocket, And two pence in Tabacco still doth stocke it. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz, Streets—Night, The kidney-pie man has just walked away with his warehouse on his arm.
†c. A mason's or carpenter's workshop. Obs.—0
1530Palsgr. 286/2 Warehouse for masons or carpentars, astillier [= atelier].
†d. A tradesman's inner or back shop. Obs.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Magazin, or arriére boutique, a warehouse, an inner shop. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. i, Tho. Where's the boy? Piso. Within sir, in the warehouse. 1605Timme Quersit. ii. vii. 139 Neither did they care for so great confusion of compositions and mixtures which fill a whole ware-house and shoppe.
†e. Used as a more dignified synonym for ‘shop’. Obs.
With defining word, as in baby-linen warehouse, Italian warehouse, the word was in the early 20th c. still met with on the signboards of London shops.
c1730Burt Lett. N. Scot. (1818) I. 65 Here and there you may now see an ordinary shop dubbed with the important title of a Warehouse. 1796–7Jane Austen Pride & Prej. (1813) III. v. 93 She does not know which are the best warehouses. 1798― Northang. Abb. ix, Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse. c1852–7Katey's Voy. 13, ‘I know him,’ said one of the men. ‘He lives at Douglas, just off the quay.’ ‘I know him too. I've bought goods at his warehouse,’ observed a lady.
f. In a printing office (see quot.).
1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Warehouse, the department responsible for printed work and ‘white’ paper... Warehouse-knife, a large knife used for cutting up by hand small quantities of paper.
g. Phr. warehouse to warehouse, used attrib. to designate a clause in a cargo insurance policy which provides that the insurance policy applies throughout all of the normal course of transit. Also applied to the policy itself, etc.
1922Lloyd's List Law Rep. 30 Nov. 270/1, I am not sure that in a warehouse to warehouse policy the word ‘theft’ ought to be limited to theft by violence in the same way as it is in a purely marine policy. 1924Ibid. 24 Apr. 450/2 The policy..incorporates the ‘warehouse to warehouse’ Clause No. 6 of the Institute Cargo Clauses. 1932Law Times Rep. 27 Aug. 168/2 In my view, the practice has always been that the rule as to ship's papers applies though there is a warehouse to warehouse clause in the policy. 1974E. R. H. Ivamy Marine Insurance (ed. 2) xiii. 121 The general rule is that the risk attaches when the goods are loaded, but may attach beforehand if the policy contains a ‘craft’ clause or the ‘transit’ (‘warehouse to warehouse’) clause. 1982J. Phillips Dict. Trading Terms 65/2 Transit clause,..one of the clauses in a marine insurance policy defining the normal course of transit, and including the warehouse to warehouse cover that many traders require.
h. U.S. colloq. A large and impersonal institution providing accommodation for mental patients, old people, or poor people.
1970Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 3 Oct. 25/1 We have too many such ‘human warehouses’, staffed by underpaid and poorly trained personnel. 1972Time 14 Feb. 67 But for most of Willowbrook's residents, the institution is a warehouse, a place capable of providing only shelter and the barest essentials, for those whose families are either unwilling or unable to care for them. 1974J. Fletcher Ethics of Genetic Control 157 We ought to protect our families from the emotional and material burden of such diseased individuals, and from the misery of their simply ‘existing’ (not living) in a nearby ‘warehouse’ or public institution. 1976N.Y. Times 25 Apr. iv. 1 Subsidized public housing has been anathema to the emigres who now live in the suburbs, where the very mention conjures specters of high-rise ‘human warehouses’ like those that have been erected in ghetto areas.
2. attrib., as warehouse-door, warehouse-keeper, warehouse-rent; warehouse-knife (see 1 f); warehouse-room, storage in a warehouse.
1838Dickens O. Twist xxvi, A salesman..who was smoking a pipe at his *warehouse-door.
1683W. Hedges Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 73 They have been forced to give Mr. Ellis, *ware⁓house keeper, each of them, a Bribe. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxv. ⁋1 The Warehouse-keeper takes the Heap out of the Press-room..into the Warehouse. 1709Act 8 Anne c. 21 §5 The Ware-house-Keeper of the said Company of Stationers. 1821J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) 392 Delivered the above, 10 November, 1819. A. B. Ware-house-keeper.
1799Local Act 39 Geo. III, c. 58 §6 marg., Parcels..to be delivered..on Payment of Carriage and *Ware-house-Rent.
1615E. S. Britain's Buss in Arber Eng. Garner III. 640 For *Warehouse-room there, till the herrings be sold, allow, at most {pstlg}2 0s. 0d. 1799Local Act 39 Geo. III, c. 58 §6 The additional Sum of Two Pence for the Warehouse-Room thereof [sc. of the Parcel]. 1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 259 Does the value of this probability pay for the expense of warehouse-room?
Hence ˈwarehouseful.
1859Mill Liberty iii. 121 A man cannot get a coat or a pair of boots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from.
Add:[2.] warehouse party, a party held (usu. illegally) in a warehouse; spec. = Acid House party s.v. *Acid House n.
1988New Statesman 17 June 13/1 Jazzie's part of this new environment started to shape itself early in 1986, via the magnet of illicit *warehouse parties. 1989Chicago Tribune 11 Oct. v. 2/1 The city's black artists..created a street-smart dance music known as ‘house’ at warehouse parties on the South and West Sides.
▪ II. warehouse, v.|ˈwɛəhaʊs|
[f. warehouse n.]
trans. To deposit or secure (goods) in a warehouse; to deposit (furniture) for safe keeping, a charge being made for storage; to place (imported goods) in a bonded warehouse pending the payment of the import duty. Hence ˈwarehoused ppl. a.
1799Hull Advertiser 9 Nov. 4/2, 16 bales of sugar which have been landed and warehoused. 1819Act 59 Geo. III, c. 52 Table A—Inwards, Warehoused Goods. For a List of those Goods which may be warehoused, or otherwise secured on Importation into Great Britain without Payment of Duty in the First Instance, See Table F. 1874Daily News 16 Feb. 6/5 A building..in which will be found complete accommodation for warehousing the valuables of noble⁓men and gentlemen in their absence from town. 1886Scholl Phraseol. Dict. II. 832 Any cotton you may consign to us will be warehoused pending your further instructions.
b. transf. and fig.
1824Landor Imag. Conv., Washington & Franklin Wks. 1846 I. 124 Their stores of intellect are not squandered in the regions of fancy..but warehoused and kept sound at home. 1835Edin. Rev. LXI. 457 Our coal mines may be regarded as vast magazines of hoarded, or warehoused power. 1855Smedley Occult Sciences 149 Its wondrous fount, from the days of Herodotus to our own, has been warehoused by small poets as part of their stock in trade of sparkling illustrations.
c. slang. To put in prison.
1881Punch 12 Feb. 71 D'you want to get us both ‘ware⁓housed’?
d. U.S. colloq. To place (a person, esp. a mental patient) in a large and impersonal institution.
1972Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 22 Feb. 1 The current federal lawsuit against Partlow State School and Hospital may become a landmark decision in America as the country continues its ‘trend away from large custodial institutions where people are warehoused and where they are denied the opportunity to develop their full potential,’ Dr. Philip Roos said here Monday. 1979Time 2 Apr. 42/2 Freud's dazzling and complex theory of the mind..came along when American psychiatry was doing little more than warehousing the insane and performing the occasional crude Cuckoo's Nest lobotomy.
e. Stock Exchange slang. To buy (shares) as a nominee of another trader, with a view to a take-over. Cf. sense 1 b of the vbl. n.
1977Private Eye 13 May 17/2 The suggested reward to the Swiss holders for ‘warehousing’ the ex-Bates shares would be perhaps 10p or more per share profit. |