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单词 crimpage
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crimpagen.

Brit. /ˈkrɪmpɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈkrɪmpɪdʒ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: crimp n.2, -age suffix.
Etymology: < crimp n.2 + -age suffix. With sense 2 compare earlier crimping n.2
Now historical.
1. More fully crimpage money. A payment made to a crimp for his services. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services
barber feec1380
alnage1418
school fee1512
pinlocka1525
warden-fee1531
wait fee1563
fullage1611
pipe-moneya1637
marriage money1674
sharping-corn1681
spy-money1713
crimpage1732
cooperage1755
stirrup money1757
stub-money1776
membership fee1860
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > commission
provision1589
brokage-money1591
factorage1599
brokerage1622
commission1658
crimpage1732
commish1856
1732 Exact Abridgem. All Statutes VII. 156 Nothing in this Act shall extend to hinder..any Master, or Owners of any Ship using the Coal-Trade, from imploying Crimps or Factors,..to sell or dispose of their Loadings of Coals, or pay them the Crimpage or Factorage, as hath usually been paid.
1755 Stow's Survey of London (ed. 6) II. v. xiv. 319/1 Any Coal owner may employ..Crimps or Factors..to dispose of their Loadings, and pay them Crimpage or Factorage.
1794 Proc. Old Bailey 15 Jan. 868/2 Come to Black Wall and get a ship for me, and you will have crimpage money for me.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xvi. 528 The Captain pays them two guineas crimpage.
1868 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. (Portsmouth) 14 Nov. 7/2 They were shipped by a system of crimpage payment to the greatest set of scoundrels unhung.
1925 M. D. George London Life in XVIII Cent. vi. 312 The crimps then procured another ship for their victims and received the crimpage money from the captain.
2. = crimping n.2
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1815 Eclectic Rev. May 448 The system of crimpage cannot, perhaps, be defended upon principles of morality.
1850 Liverpool Mercury 30 Jan. 3/4 The sailor shall be abandoned to all the frauds to which the crimpage system subjects him.
1910 W. Smart Econ. Ann. 19th Cent. xv. 285 The iniquitous trade of crimpage was abolished.
1956 J. H. Parry & P. M. Sherlock Short Hist. W. Indies vii. 108 The frequency with which the item ‘crimpage’ occurs in slaving accounts indicates the methods to which slavers often had to resort in order to make up their complement of seamen.
1990 D. J. Starkey Brit. Privateering Enterprise in 18th Cent. x. 263 Accordingly, crimpage was widely used by merchant shipowners.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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