单词 | muster-book |
释义 | muster-bookn. Now historical. A book in which a muster is kept; a register of military personnel, esp. the crew of a warship; a census report. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > muster-roll or -list muster1565 muster-book1565 list1604 muster roll1608 muster filea1616 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > list of officers or sailors muster-book1702 Navy Lista1770 prize list1782 reserved list1826 flag-list1873 inscription maritime1902 1565 B. Garter Tragicall Hist. Two Eng. Louers f. 42v His musterbooke was furnished. 1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) f. 296 All the Saintes, which before the commyng of Christ are written in the registers of the heauenly muster booke. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. viii. 114 The beginning thereof is nothing els but a Musterbooke of names. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 133 We haue a number of shadowes fill vp the muster booke . View more context for this quotation 1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iii. iii. sig. G4v A marginall note in the muster-booke, that he is A voluntary Lord. 1643 W. Davenant Vnfortunate Lovers iii. i All that I read is in the Muster-book. 1702 Royal Declar. 1 June in London Gaz. No. 3815/3 [They] are..Required..to cause the said List to be Examined, by the Muster-Book of such Man of War. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 18 View but his Muster-Books, and you'll, by their Rates, fancy his Men the stoutest Fellows in the Navy. 1807 J. Barron in State Papers U.S. (1817) VI. 36 The Leopard's boat soon after came on board, and the officer who came in her demanded the muster book. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Muster-book, a copy of a ship of war's open list, drawn up for the use of the clerk of the check, in calling over the crew. 1954 W. G. Hoskins Devon ix. 170 The muster-books of able-bodied men between 1558 and 1588 reveal that Devon was now the second or third most populous county in England. 1988 J. C. K. Cornwall Wealth & Society in Early 16th Cent. Eng. (BNC) 23 The high proportion [of clothiers] in Suffolk worth upwards of £100 is not matched by any other extant muster book. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1565 |
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