单词 | trafficking place |
释义 | > as lemmastrafficking place a. With the sense ‘of or relating to trade or commerce; for or employed in trading’, as in trafficking goods, trafficking place, trafficking vessel, trafficking voyage, etc. Now rare and chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1695 R. Ferguson Brief Acct. Incroachm. & Depredations of Dutch upon Eng. 49 We..did leave our selves destitute of such a Number of Ships of War, as might..have covered and defended our trafficking Vessels. 1726 Lives & Amours Queens & Royal Mistresses 165 Those Indulgences..are good trafficking Commodities. 1729 W. Hatchett tr. J. P. Bignon Adventures of Abdalla 9 Resolving to apply themselves to Commerce, and to go a trafficking Voyage to Siam. 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. ii. i. 357 The parishes..contain..even 1000 and more farms, from 3 to 7 churches,..markets, and trafficking places. 1827 New Monthly Mag. 20 135 Shoals of little trafficking barks, laden with all the produce of the country. 1850 Chelmsford Chron. 15 Nov. The trafficking goods, such as I have mentioned—blankets, brass wire.., hatchets of very inferior make. 1860 Deseret News (Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 26 Sept. 236/3 The Utah Chief, Arapeen, started with a strong party of his tribe on a trafficking expedition to the Navajoe country. 1938 C. P. Nettels Roots Amer. Civilization (1940) ix. 225 Plymouth Colony established trading posts on the Connecticut, Kennebec, and Penobscot Rivers, while..prior to 1650..Springfield was a trafficking center. < as lemmas |
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