单词 | stallenger |
释义 | stallengern. Scottish and northern. Obsolete exc. Historical. A stall-keeper, a petty trader who paid to the burgh a small sum for the privilege of setting up his stall in fair or market; also, a person not a freeman who paid a small sum to the corporation for the privilege of carrying on his business for one year. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > stall-keeper > at a market stallengera1400 stationer1616 a1400 Burgh Laws xxxvii, in Sc. Stat. I Of stallangearis and mersaris tol. Ilke stallangear sall mak fyne with þe borow greffis eftyr as þai may accord or ellis he sall geyf a halpeny ilke marcate day. 1433 Seill of Caus Edinb. 2 May , MS. (Jam.) Giue he beis sufficient of his craft, and not of power to mak his expenssis haistelie wpon his fredome, he sall bruik the priviledge of ane stallanger for ane yeir. 1523 Morpeth Rec. in Archaeologia Aeliana (1889) New Ser. 13 214 And if it fortine anye stalinger to maike a fraye wthin the said boroughe, that then the officers aforesaid shall sett the same offenders in the Stox. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione (1641) Stallangiatores, à stallo, Cremers, or Forraine merchandes, quha within Burgh, in the time of Faire or Mercat, payis certaine dewty for their stal or stand, in the quhilk place they sel their merchandice: For it is ordained, that ilk stallanger sal either agree with the Provest of the Burgh, in the best forme as he may; or else ilk mercat-day, sal pay to him ane halfe-pennie. 1857 Gentleman's Mag. i. 351/1 [Sunderland.] It appears..that one of the duties of the ‘Grassmen’, who were generally two or three of the defunct body of freemen and stallingers, was anciently to look after the hedges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1400 |
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