单词 | smuggler |
释义 | smugglern. 1. One who smuggles commodities; esp. one who makes a trade or practice of smuggling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > smuggler lorendriver1649 smuggler1661 gentleman1726 contrabandist1813 fair trader1824 spotsman1827 contrabandista1832 1661 Proclamation 9 Aug. A sort of leud people called Smuckellors, never heard of before the late disordered times, who make it their trade..to steal and defraud His Majesty of His Customs. 1670 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 3) Smuglers, are stealers of Customs; well known upon the Thames. 1740 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 289 He declared before us all that he was a Smuggler. 1779 Mirror No. 62 He had served with eclat in the corps established for repressing smugglers of tobacco. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. iii. 317 Smugglers of salt go openly in armed bands. 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 36 It had the reputation..of being the haunt of smugglers. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > smuggling runner1719 smuggler1799 free-trader1815 guinea-boat1867 smug-boat1867 1799 Naval Chron. 2 443 The Assistance Smuggler, from Guernsey. 1836 F. Marryat Three Cutters iv, in Pirate & Three Cutters 267 This vessel..must be a smuggler. 1894 K. Hewat Little Sc. World i. 12 The casks landed from the smuggler were safely deposited. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as smuggler boat, smuggler devil, smuggler dogger, smuggler-hunting. ΚΠ 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 135 His majesty's sloop Princess Anne fell in with a smuggler dogger in the frith of Forth. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. vi. 109 Thae smuggler deevils. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 333 He beat about year after year in all sorts of smuggler boats. 1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. 202 He had taken up the unprofitable task of smuggler-hunting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661 |
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