| 单词 | ballast office |
| 释义 | > as lemmasballast office ballast office n. an office controlling the supply of ballast to ships. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > offices concerned with shipping victualling-office1668 ballast office1677 shipping-office1840 1677 A. Marvell Seasonable Argument 8 George Boreman, Esquire, once an Under-Clerk in the six Clerks Office, now Master of the Ballast Office. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xviii. 286/2 Deptford-Strond..where their Ballast Office is also kept. 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 330/2 Ballast-office Corporation, Dublin, or, more correctly, the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin. 1922 Times 2 May 9/4 Republican youths seized the Ballast Office and the Kildare-street Club. 2004 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 10 Aug. (Business section) 12 Rok bought four Ballast offices from the receiver, including the Ellesmere Port site. < as lemmas |
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