| 单词 | town's husband |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTown's Husband Town's Husband n. now historical (esp. in Hull) a borough official responsible for keeping accounts, collecting fees, supervising repairs, etc.; cf. husband n. 5a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > others almonera1400 purser-general1633 eleemosynary1656 Town's Husbanda1749 camerlengo1753 purser1814 a1749 G. C. Deering Nottinghamia (1751) 106 Of late there is a new Office established, by the Name of the Town's-Husband, whose Employment is to go about and examine what wants Repairing. 1757 in Notes & Queries (1889) 7 Dec. 447/2 James Mihill, Town's Husband [buried at Beverley]. 1795 Hull Advertiser 8 Aug. in Notes & Queries (1889) 21 Dec. 496/1 Wanted by the Corporation of this Town, a proper person for the office of Town's Husband, or Common Officer. 1833 Rep. Select Comm. Munic. Corporations 319 Is there any other fee paid to you as town's husband [at Hull]? 2003 W. H. Greenleaf Much Governed Nation (new ed.) ii. 13 Eighteenth-century Hull where the corporation and the Town's Husband exercised a notable number of functions. < as lemmas |
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