galern.
/ˈɡeɪlə/ In Gloucestershire:† a. The farmer or collector of the ‘gale’ or manorial duty on fish. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods > collector of specific duties
gabeller1598
galera1641
salt-master1656
setter1699
stamp-collector1710
malt-officer1726
salt-officer1748
stamp-man1765
VATman1977
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 321 The Lords servant or farmer thereof, the Galor.
b. The agent for the letting of ‘gales’ or mining licences.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who grants mining licence
galer1832
1832 in 5th Rep. Dean Forest Comm. (1835) 70 I never sold a gale, but I have bought quarries. I went to the galer, and had it transferred in the gale-book.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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