| 单词 | grey merchant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey merchant grey merchant n. now historical and rare (in Ireland) an itinerant merchant; spec. one who buys up goods before they reach the public market; = forestaller n. 1. ΚΠ 1542 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 2. in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 185 An Act for gray Merchants. 1697 Act 9 Will. III c. 33 Every Gray-Merchant, Merchant-Traveller, or Pedler, who usually Travels with an Horse, shall pay One pound. 1757 R. Stephenson Inq. State & Progress Linen Manuf. Ireland i. 37 It appears, that in an Act made against Grey Merchants Forestalling, Linen and Linen Yarn were then the most considerable Manufactures and Trade of Consequence among the Natives of this Kingdom. 1989 K. Simms in R. F. Foster Oxf. Hist. Ireland ii. 96 Trading-houses in the bigger cities would pay a local lord for licence to send their ‘grey merchants’ or ‘forestallers’ from house to house among his subjects. < as lemmas |
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