| 单词 | regulating captain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasregulating captain b. spec. Designating an officer responsible for examining and enlisting naval recruits. Chiefly in regulating captain. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > officer with specific duty > [noun] > officer who examines recruits regulating captain1712 1712 R. Burridge Religio Libertini 16 Having an Order granted me by the Lords of the Admiralty at their Office, for the Regulating Captains to allow me what Imprest-gangs I demanded. 1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 48 The regulating judge to determine how far such man is obliged to serve. 1768 Woman of Honor II. 182 Recommended him to a regulating Captain ‘as a fit person to serve the King’. 1798 A. Roden Diary 11 June in J. Stevenson Two Cent. Life in Down (1920) xix. 493 The regulating officer, Captain Carmichael..found us out some rooms. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Regulating captain, is an officer stationed at the different royal ports, in time of war, to examine the seamen intended for the navy. 1889 Monthly Chron. North-Country Lore & Legend Mar. 136/1 The Regulating Captain of the port of Newcastle, as the head of the impress service here was officially designated, was John Bover. 1953 Mariner's Mirror 39 138 Captain Mends..was Regulating Captain at Liverpool. 2002 D. J. Ennis Enter Press-Gang ii. 73 The idea that a regulating captain might be corrupt is not unusual. < as lemmas |
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