| 单词 | custom house duty | 
| 释义 | > as lemmascustom house duty  a.   General attributive, as  custom house duty,  custom house man,  custom house station, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1645    J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ  vi. v. 13  				It should be sufficient for him to Register an invoice of his Cargazon in the Custom-House Book. 1660    T. Watson Beatitudes 467  				He was a Custome-house man. 1771    R. Cumberland West Indian  i. v. 7  				The whole tribe of custom-house extortioners, boat-men, tide-waiters and water-bailiffs. 1832    Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 10th Parl.) 4 3416/1  				The petition..for the repeal of the Customs-house duty on licences for boats employed in the fishing-trade. 1838    Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 8 37  				At 16m. [along the road,] Ráhdárí, or Custom-house station. 1890    Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 8/2  				The Custom House authorities have given notice that on and after October 1 their officers will have instructions to weigh and tare packages of tea to the half-pound. 1931    A. P. Wadsworth  & J. De Lacy Mann Cotton Trade & Industr. Lancs. 151  				The bejutapauts, negannepauts, nicconees,..and more than twenty other varieties mentioned in the Custom House Accounts were all coarse cottons in different colours. 1985    Times of India 28 Feb. 11/1 		(heading)	  				Customs house men end strike. 2003    J. Bannister Rule of Admirals iv. 129  				In 1772, for example, local merchants refused to pay the customs house fees at St. John's. < as lemmas  | 
	
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