| 单词 | to pay footing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay (for) (one's) footing 10. A fee or liquor demanded of a person on entering a new position of employment or being admitted to a trade, society, etc. Frequently in to pay (for) (one's) footing. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > entrance fee > for joining society, guild, or group Hanse1200 ingress1607 footing1692 livery fine1701 garnish1759 chummage1777 1692 J. Dunton Visions of Soul xxv. 126 Force 'em to the last shift of paying their Footing, (which is, Breaking,) and commencing Projector themselves. 1710 Brit. Apollo 21–24 Apr. Young..Sinners..not yet of Age to pay for their Footing in St. James's Park. 1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales 16 A cruel custom obtains in most of our gaols, which is that of the prisoners demanding of a new comer, garnish, footing, or (as it is called in some of the London gaols) chummage. 1847 W. Dodd Laboring Classes Eng. ii. 22 Jimmy had to comply with the evil and pernicious practice of paying footing. 1864 A. Trollope Small House at Allington I. ii. 19 Mr. Crosbie..had to pay half a crown for his footing to the haymakers. 1887 A. A. Anderson Twenty-five Years in Waggon II. 207 Each member had to..pay his footing in the way of a certain quantity of brandy or square face (gin). 1923 Observer 11 Feb. 14 The boy will have to pay his footing, and, unhappily, in the modern public-house there is only one sort of commodity on sale. 1986 W. J. Rorabaugh Craft Apprentice v. 104 The molders demanded that the new apprentice follow custom and provide a footing—that is, one day's supply of liquor to all the molders in the foundry. < as lemmas |
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