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单词 prime gilt
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prime giltn.

Brit. /ˈprʌɪm ˌɡɪlt/, U.S. /ˈpraɪm ˌɡɪlt/, Scottish English /ˈprʌim ˌɡɪlt/
Forms: pre-1700 prim gilt, pre-1700 prin gilt (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 pryme gilt, pre-1700 pryme giltt, pre-1700 prym gelt, pre-1700 prym gilt, pre-1700 pryn gilt (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 1700s– prime gilt.
Origin: Apparently either (i) formed within English, by compounding. Or (ii) a borrowing from Middle Low German. Or (iii) a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: prime v.2, gilt n.2; Middle Low German prīmegelt, Dutch priemgelt.
Etymology: Apparently either < prime v.2 (compare prime v.2 1) + gilt n.2, or < either Middle Low German prīmegelt, prīmgelt (1468), or Dutch †priemgelt (Middle Dutch priemgelt (1460)), both in sense ‘money paid to the captain or crew of a ship for taking care of the cargo’, also ‘bonus or gratuity paid to the captain or crew of a ship’, and both < a first element of uncertain origin (compare earlier primage n.1, prime v.2) + respectively Middle Low German gelt and Middle Dutch gelt ‘money’ (see geld n.2, and compare gelt n.2, gild n.2). Compare earlier primage n.1 in same sense, and the post-classical Latin form cited at that entry.Compare ( < Middle Low German) German Primgeld (early 18th cent. or earlier; now historical), Danish primegelt (late 17th cent. or earlier), Old Swedish primgiäld (1478; Swedish†primegelt).
Scottish. Now chiefly historical.
= primage n.1
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > sailor's pay > additional payments
primage1476
prime gilt1576
pinch-gut money1660
hat money1676
conduct-money1702
hard line money1886
hard-lying money1890
hard lyers1916
1576 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 54 The pryme-giltt, quhilk was gevin be the liberaltie of merchantis, hes bene in all tymes past vplifted and spent be the marinaris in vane and wicked vses.
c1580 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 187 To be furit to..Deip in France for the fraucht of xxvjs. and xvjs. the mort chairge frie of all uther chairges except pryme gilt.
1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 668/2 Þe prymgilt To be vplifted for sustentatioun Of the pure and decayit Marineris wtin The said toun of leith.
1633 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1817) V. 93/2 Grantit..the indraucht thairof and prymegilt of all shipes coming to the said port.
1696 in H. Armet Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1962) XII. 189 As also that the masters of the Fraternity hospital hade sett ane tack of the duty of the prime gilt to George Dundas in Leith.
1711 D. Robertson Bailies of Leith (1915) 152 Did in 1656 and 1701 mitigate the forsaid twelve pennies per tun of primegilt to a mans full burden of great coalls to be furthwith paid out of every tuenty deall of coalls.
1722 A. Pennecuik Hist. Blue Blanket 102 And dispones to them the prime Gilt to be uplifted for sustaining of poor indigent Sea-Men within the said Village of Leith.
1787 Farther Proc. Burgesses Aberdeen p. lxxvi To J. Buchan in part of prime gilt process.
1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 763 The shipmasters and mariners of Leith had been in the practice of receiving certain duties and stipends, called Prime Gilt of all Scotch ships loaded within Leith.
1929 Times 25 Oct. 17/4 Miss Isabella Salmond..left personal estate in Great Britain... She left..£500..to..the Prime Gilt Box Society.
2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 5 Jan. 5 The Incorporation's origins date to 1380, when the guild was founded to provide relief for poor, infirm and aged mariners, raising money via a ‘prime gilt’ tax.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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