单词 | mud clerk |
释义 | > as lemmasmud clerk mud clerk n. U.S. an assistant to the purser on a river steamer. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > on a ship nipcheese1785 mud clerk1872 1872 E. Eggleston End of World xxvi. 171 It was natural enough that the ‘mud-clerk’ on the old steamboat Iatan should have taken a fancy to the ‘striker’, as the engineer's apprentice was called. 1912 I. S. Cobb Back Home 103 Even her two mud clerks, let alone her captain and her pilots, wore uniforms. 2000 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 19 May e8 The steamboat's boilers exploded, killing the pilot and Henry, who was serving as mud clerk. < as lemmas |
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