tributen.

Brit.

/ˈtrɪbjuːt/, U.S.

/ˈtrɪbjut/

Forms: Also Middle English trebute, tribuyt, tribuit, tribit, Middle English–1500s tribut, trybut, trybute, Middle English Scottish trewbut, trewbute.

Etymology: < Latin tribūtum, neuter of tribūtus , past participle of tribuĕre to assign, give, pay. Compare French tribut (15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), and the semi-popular and inherited Old French forms trebus (14th cent. in Godefroy Compl.) and trėu : see trew v.

a. A tax or impost paid by one prince or state to another in acknowledgement of submission or as the price of peace, security, and protection; rent or homage paid in money or an equivalent by a subject to his sovereign or a vassal to his lord.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tribute > [noun]

gavelc725

trewagec1275

rentc1300

tribute1340

port1350

scat1502

tribute-money1526

mise1535

vectigal1535

livery1577

mise-money1617

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tribute > [noun]

trewagec1275

trewec1330

tribute1340

acknowledgement1579

1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 710 Þei..taken of ȝou tribit þat traie is to paie, Of ȝoure offringus alle ofte in þe ȝere.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 114 With-owttyne more trouflyng the trebute we aske, That Julius Cesar wane wyth his jentille knyghttes!

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxi. 117 They of Athenes muste sende eueri yere for a trybute to the kynge Mynos of Crete..seuen men and seuen wymen.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlj^v Germany is muche impouerished with warres..and with tributes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 113 He..Confederates..with King of Naples To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xvii. 470 A large portion of the tribute was paid in money.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 503/2 Edgar..liberat[ed] the Welsh from the payment of the tax of gold and silver on condition of an annual tribute of three hundred wolves.

1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. (1874) xii. §14. 225 The successes of the Turks were largely owing to their taking a tribute of children from their Christian subjects.

b. Hence contextually, The obligation or necessity of paying this; the condition of being tributary, as to lay a tribute on. under, †on tribute: under obligation to pay tribute (also figurative: cf. 2).

ΚΠ

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 37 Wonyeth þere none But vnder tribut & taillage as tykes & cherles.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 589 Still scho duelt on trewbute in the toune And purchest had king Eduuardis proteccioune.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xii. D A diligent hande shal beare rule, but the ydle shal be vnder tribute.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Prov. xii. 24 The hand..which is slothful, shal serve under tributes.

1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Serm. 1 Peter (1685) (ii. 13) 4 If a fast did only lay a tribute upon our eyes.

1793 R. Hall Apol. Freedom Press iv. 50 His imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute.

2. transferred and figurative.

a. Something paid or contributed as by a subordinate to a superior; an offering or gift rendered as a duty, or as an acknowledgement of affection or esteem.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift of appreciation or esteem

offeringc1330

tribute1585

oblation1595

honorarium1609

honorary1610

noshi1822

testimonial1838

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxvii. 145 b The euils..wherof by the tribute of death, they were deliuered.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 39 His Father..having paid Nature her last Tribute..the year before.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 258 From his side two rivers flow'd,..Then meeting joyn'd thir tribute to the Sea.

1751 T. Gray Elegy xx. 9 Some frail memorial..Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 318 The committee..also declare, that they cannot conclude their report, without returning a just tribute of acknowledgement to the illustrious author of this discovery, Dr. Jenner.

1850 Syd. Smith's Wks. I. 8/1 (note) I cannot read the name of Malthus without adding my tribute of affection for the memory of one of the best men that ever lived.

1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury I. vi. 323 To the merits of Grimbald no higher tribute could have been paid.

b. A praiseworthy thing attributable to, a testimony to. Often (as by Fowler in quot. 1926) regarded as an incorrect use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > praiseworthiness > [noun] > praiseworthy thing

praising?c1225

praise1532

commendable1654

tribute1926

1926 in H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 662/2 The debate on the whole was a tribute to the good taste and good form of the House of Commons.

1937 W. H. S. Smith Let. 3 May in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 69 Are the Guildford's using their old Coronation Robes? If so, it's a tribute to Lady G.'s figure.

1961 New Statesman 8 Feb. 198/1 Perhaps..the gusty vigour of the heroes of the period from Grant to McKinley is a tribute to the American character.

3. In Mining (originally in the tin-mining of Cornwall; now in general use).

a. The proportion of the value of the ore raised, paid by the miners to the owners or lessors of the land or their representatives.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of taking minerals

sand-mail1287

lot-leada1483

lot1630

cope1631

sand-gavel1663

lordship1767

gale1775

tribute1778

royalty1839

groundage1852

seignioragea1859

galeage1881

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 330/1 Tribute, [called] a Cope [in] North of England, a consideration or share of the produce of a Mine either in money or kind..paid by the Takers or Tributors to the original Adventurers or owners, for the liberty granted to the Takers of enjoying the Mine, or a part thereof, called a Pitch, for a limited time.

1886 N.Z. Herald 1 June 6/7 Tributes were let to several parties, whose contributions to the company during the year amounted to £153 19s. 6d. The receipts showed calls to be £1573 4s., tributers £153 19s. 6d., sundries (such as crushing, interest, and overdraft) £47 9s. 6d.: total, £1774 13s.

1911 C. Boyd in United Empire July 393 The Tributor is a small goldminer..paying tribute on his holding.

b. The proportion of ore raised or its value, paid to the miners by the owners of the mine or land, in payment of their labour.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of manual workers > payment to miners

tribute1832

furtherance1849

footage1873

click1876

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xxvi. 248 Tribute, which is payment for raising and dressing the ore, by means of a certain part of its value when rendered merchantable.

1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 143 The ores so raised are sold every week, and the miner immediately receives his tribute or per centage for which he agreed to work.

1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. (1871) 1st Ser. 90 The inducements of very high ‘tribute’ were held out to the miners.

c. Hence, to work on tribute, or on the tribute system, to work on the plan of paying or receiving certain proportions of the produce.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work in other specific ways or conditions

dead horse1640

grub1798

subcontract1827

chare1828

slut1829

to take up one's livery1839

hat1868

to work on tribute1869

freelance1904

work1920

nine-to-five1962

job-share1978

telework1983

1869 R. M. Ballantyne Deep Down xxviii. 359 When a man works on ‘tribute’ he receives so many shillings for every twenty shillings' worth of ore that he raises during the month.

1875 Melbourne Spectator 12 June 63/2 The company pleaded that the mine was let on tribute.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 85 The Wyoming and Pittsburgh are worked on tribute.

1885 Money Market Rev. 29 Aug. (Cassell) Some twelve men are now working old dump, concentrating on tribute.

d. Work performed in excavating and dressing the ore, as distinguished from tut-work, which consists in sinking shafts, driving of adits, and similar preparatory operations.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or dressing ore

tribute1839

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 246/1 The dead work is denominated ‘tutwork’, and the raising of ores ‘tribute’.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 246/1 The mode of payment adopted in tutwork and tribute is entirely different: in the former case..the miner..is paid at so much per fathom..; in the latter case..the miner receives a certain percentage on the actual value [of the ore], being paid at the rate of so many shillings in the pound upon that value.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

tribute-bribe n.

ΚΠ

a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 21 Yet in his life Paid tribute-bribes to his own conscious wife.

tribute-coin n.

ΚΠ

1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xxii. 19 Shew me the tribute coine. And they offred him a penie.

tribute-gatherer n.

ΚΠ

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Trybute gatherer, telo.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 28 They had ston'd his Tribute-gatherer.

tribute-offer n.

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvii. sig. Z8 Fair streames..let the tribute-offer of my teares vnto you, procure your stay a while with me.

tribute-payer n.

ΚΠ

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Trybute payer, stipendarius,..tributarius.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 60 From what countrey soeuer tribute payers, or ambassadours come vnto him.

tribute-payment n.

ΚΠ

1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. B2 Is our embassadour dispatcht for Spaine?.. And tribute paiment gone along with him?

tribute-piece n.

ΚΠ

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 100 Whether these tribute peeces were coined by the Romanes..I may not easily affirme.

tribute-quittance n.

tribute-river n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun]

succour1596

creek1622

kill1669

sidestream1715

feeder1795

tribute-river1820

tributary1822

affluent1829

confluent1849

sub-river1849

influent1859

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 110 Indus and its tribute rivers.

tribute-roll n.

† tribute silver n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 115 A thousand Streamlings that n'er saw the Sunne, With tribute silver to his service runne.

b. (In sense 3.)

tribute-man n.

ΚΠ

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 503 It seems they worked in different parties..like the tribute-men of the mines.

tribute-pitch n. pitch n.² 16.

ΚΠ

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 189 A Tribute-Pitch consists of a few fathoms in length on the course of the Lode [in a Copper Mine].

1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. (1871) 1st Ser. 105 She was promised no end of good luck..and Jan the best luck in tribute-pitches.

tribute system n.

ΚΠ

1872 R. B. Smyth Mining Statist. 83 There does not appear any very good reason why prospecting ventures should not, as a rule, be established on the tribute system.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 449/2 The third method is that which is known as the tribute system. The miner working on tribute..gives the mining company all the ore he extracts at a certain proportion of its value, after he has paid all the cost of breaking it, hoisting it to the surface, and dressing it.

tribute-taker n.

ΚΠ

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 189 A Tribute-Taker, as well as every other Miner in a Bal, obliges himself and partners to lend a hand gratis at the capstan whenever required.

tribute work n.

ΚΠ

1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) 127 What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different forms of ‘tut work’ as compared with ‘tribute work’?

tribute-bearing n.

tribute-paying n.

ΚΠ

1860 J. Cairns Mem. J. Brown vi. 186 The true Christian doctrine of civil obedience and tribute paying.

C2.

tribute-children n. children surrendered as tribute.

ΚΠ

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 332 Farre the greatest part of these tribute children taken from their Christian parents,..hee caused to bee dispierced into euerie citie and countrey of his dominion in Asia.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 510 (margin) The Iemoglans, or tribute-children.

tribute rice n. Chinese History a grain tax paid in kind.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun] > paid in produce

scat haver1344

scat malt1438

assize-herring1597

forester oats1794

tribute rice1853

1853 North-China Herald 26 Mar. 134/4 (heading) Destruction of the Che Híen's House and tribute rice.

1959 P. Fleming Siege at Peking v. 61 Tungchow, whose prosperity depended on its status as an entrepot for tribute-rice brought by canal from the interior, had economic as well as ideological motives for disliking the railway.

Draft additions March 2003

tribute band n. a band which plays the music of another more famous group (or performer), often imitating them in appearance and performance style.

ΚΠ

1979 Washington Post 9 Oct. c3/2 This is not just a memorial band, a tribute band. It's a working group of some of the best musicians that passed through the [Mingus] Jazz Workshop.

2001 Heat 28 Apr. 22 Hear'say have well and truly made it. If a record-breaking Number One single and album and a huge fanbase weren't proof enough, they have now spawned a tribute band—the cheekily named Near'say.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tribute
释义	tributen. Brit. /ˈtrɪbjuːt/, U.S. /ˈtrɪbjut/ Forms: Also Middle English trebute, tribuyt, tribuit, tribit, Middle English–1500s tribut, trybut, trybute, Middle English Scottish trewbut, trewbute. Etymology: < Latin tribūtum, neuter of tribūtus , past participle of tribuĕre to assign, give, pay. Compare French tribut (15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), and the semi-popular and inherited Old French forms trebus (14th cent. in Godefroy Compl.) and trėu : see trew v. 1. a. A tax or impost paid by one prince or state to another in acknowledgement of submission or as the price of peace, security, and protection; rent or homage paid in money or an equivalent by a subject to his sovereign or a vassal to his lord. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tribute > [noun] gavelc725 trewagec1275 rentc1300 tribute1340 port1350 scat1502 tribute-money1526 mise1535 vectigal1535 livery1577 mise-money1617 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tribute > [noun] trewagec1275 trewec1330 tribute1340 acknowledgement1579 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 710 Þei..taken of ȝou tribit þat traie is to paie, Of ȝoure offringus alle ofte in þe ȝere. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 114 With-owttyne more trouflyng the trebute we aske, That Julius Cesar wane wyth his jentille knyghttes! 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxi. 117 They of Athenes muste sende eueri yere for a trybute to the kynge Mynos of Crete..seuen men and seuen wymen. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlj^v Germany is muche impouerished with warres..and with tributes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 113 He..Confederates..with King of Naples To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage. View more context for this quotation 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xvii. 470 A large portion of the tribute was paid in money. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 503/2 Edgar..liberat[ed] the Welsh from the payment of the tax of gold and silver on condition of an annual tribute of three hundred wolves. 1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. (1874) xii. §14. 225 The successes of the Turks were largely owing to their taking a tribute of children from their Christian subjects. b. Hence contextually, The obligation or necessity of paying this; the condition of being tributary, as to lay a tribute on. under, †on tribute: under obligation to pay tribute (also figurative: cf. 2). ΚΠ 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 37 Wonyeth þere none But vnder tribut & taillage as tykes & cherles. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 589 Still scho duelt on trewbute in the toune And purchest had king Eduuardis proteccioune. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xii. D A diligent hande shal beare rule, but the ydle shal be vnder tribute. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Prov. xii. 24 The hand..which is slothful, shal serve under tributes. 1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Serm. 1 Peter (1685) (ii. 13) 4 If a fast did only lay a tribute upon our eyes. 1793 R. Hall Apol. Freedom Press iv. 50 His imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute. 2. transferred and figurative. a. Something paid or contributed as by a subordinate to a superior; an offering or gift rendered as a duty, or as an acknowledgement of affection or esteem. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift of appreciation or esteem offeringc1330 tribute1585 oblation1595 honorarium1609 honorary1610 noshi1822 testimonial1838 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxvii. 145 b The euils..wherof by the tribute of death, they were deliuered. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 39 His Father..having paid Nature her last Tribute..the year before. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 258 From his side two rivers flow'd,..Then meeting joyn'd thir tribute to the Sea. View more context for this quotation 1751 T. Gray Elegy xx. 9 Some frail memorial..Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 318 The committee..also declare, that they cannot conclude their report, without returning a just tribute of acknowledgement to the illustrious author of this discovery, Dr. Jenner. 1850 Syd. Smith's Wks. I. 8/1 (note) I cannot read the name of Malthus without adding my tribute of affection for the memory of one of the best men that ever lived. 1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury I. vi. 323 To the merits of Grimbald no higher tribute could have been paid. b. A praiseworthy thing attributable to, a testimony to. Often (as by Fowler in quot. 1926) regarded as an incorrect use. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > praiseworthiness > [noun] > praiseworthy thing praising?c1225 praise1532 commendable1654 tribute1926 1926 in H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 662/2 The debate on the whole was a tribute to the good taste and good form of the House of Commons. 1937 W. H. S. Smith Let. 3 May in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 69 Are the Guildford's using their old Coronation Robes? If so, it's a tribute to Lady G.'s figure. 1961 New Statesman 8 Feb. 198/1 Perhaps..the gusty vigour of the heroes of the period from Grant to McKinley is a tribute to the American character. 3. In Mining (originally in the tin-mining of Cornwall; now in general use). a. The proportion of the value of the ore raised, paid by the miners to the owners or lessors of the land or their representatives. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of taking minerals sand-mail1287 lot-leada1483 lot1630 cope1631 sand-gavel1663 lordship1767 gale1775 tribute1778 royalty1839 groundage1852 seignioragea1859 galeage1881 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 330/1 Tribute, [called] a Cope [in] North of England, a consideration or share of the produce of a Mine either in money or kind..paid by the Takers or Tributors to the original Adventurers or owners, for the liberty granted to the Takers of enjoying the Mine, or a part thereof, called a Pitch, for a limited time. 1886 N.Z. Herald 1 June 6/7 Tributes were let to several parties, whose contributions to the company during the year amounted to £153 19s. 6d. The receipts showed calls to be £1573 4s., tributers £153 19s. 6d., sundries (such as crushing, interest, and overdraft) £47 9s. 6d.: total, £1774 13s. 1911 C. Boyd in United Empire July 393 The Tributor is a small goldminer..paying tribute on his holding. b. The proportion of ore raised or its value, paid to the miners by the owners of the mine or land, in payment of their labour. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of manual workers > payment to miners tribute1832 furtherance1849 footage1873 click1876 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xxvi. 248 Tribute, which is payment for raising and dressing the ore, by means of a certain part of its value when rendered merchantable. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 143 The ores so raised are sold every week, and the miner immediately receives his tribute or per centage for which he agreed to work. 1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. (1871) 1st Ser. 90 The inducements of very high ‘tribute’ were held out to the miners. c. Hence, to work on tribute, or on the tribute system, to work on the plan of paying or receiving certain proportions of the produce. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work in other specific ways or conditions dead horse1640 grub1798 subcontract1827 chare1828 slut1829 to take up one's livery1839 hat1868 to work on tribute1869 freelance1904 work1920 nine-to-five1962 job-share1978 telework1983 1869 R. M. Ballantyne Deep Down xxviii. 359 When a man works on ‘tribute’ he receives so many shillings for every twenty shillings' worth of ore that he raises during the month. 1875 Melbourne Spectator 12 June 63/2 The company pleaded that the mine was let on tribute. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 85 The Wyoming and Pittsburgh are worked on tribute. 1885 Money Market Rev. 29 Aug. (Cassell) Some twelve men are now working old dump, concentrating on tribute. d. Work performed in excavating and dressing the ore, as distinguished from tut-work, which consists in sinking shafts, driving of adits, and similar preparatory operations. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or dressing ore tribute1839 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 246/1 The dead work is denominated ‘tutwork’, and the raising of ores ‘tribute’. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 246/1 The mode of payment adopted in tutwork and tribute is entirely different: in the former case..the miner..is paid at so much per fathom..; in the latter case..the miner receives a certain percentage on the actual value [of the ore], being paid at the rate of so many shillings in the pound upon that value. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. tribute-bribe n. ΚΠ a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 21 Yet in his life Paid tribute-bribes to his own conscious wife. tribute-coin n. ΚΠ 1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xxii. 19 Shew me the tribute coine. And they offred him a penie. tribute-gatherer n. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Trybute gatherer, telo. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 28 They had ston'd his Tribute-gatherer. tribute-offer n. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvii. sig. Z8 Fair streames..let the tribute-offer of my teares vnto you, procure your stay a while with me. tribute-payer n. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Trybute payer, stipendarius,..tributarius. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 60 From what countrey soeuer tribute payers, or ambassadours come vnto him. tribute-payment n. ΚΠ 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. B2 Is our embassadour dispatcht for Spaine?.. And tribute paiment gone along with him? tribute-piece n. ΚΠ 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 100 Whether these tribute peeces were coined by the Romanes..I may not easily affirme. tribute-quittance n. tribute-river n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun] succour1596 creek1622 kill1669 sidestream1715 feeder1795 tribute-river1820 tributary1822 affluent1829 confluent1849 sub-river1849 influent1859 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 110 Indus and its tribute rivers. tribute-roll n. † tribute silver n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 115 A thousand Streamlings that n'er saw the Sunne, With tribute silver to his service runne. b. (In sense 3.) tribute-man n. ΚΠ 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 503 It seems they worked in different parties..like the tribute-men of the mines. tribute-pitch n. pitch n.² 16. ΚΠ 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 189 A Tribute-Pitch consists of a few fathoms in length on the course of the Lode [in a Copper Mine]. 1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. (1871) 1st Ser. 105 She was promised no end of good luck..and Jan the best luck in tribute-pitches. tribute system n. ΚΠ 1872 R. B. Smyth Mining Statist. 83 There does not appear any very good reason why prospecting ventures should not, as a rule, be established on the tribute system. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 449/2 The third method is that which is known as the tribute system. The miner working on tribute..gives the mining company all the ore he extracts at a certain proportion of its value, after he has paid all the cost of breaking it, hoisting it to the surface, and dressing it. tribute-taker n. ΚΠ 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 189 A Tribute-Taker, as well as every other Miner in a Bal, obliges himself and partners to lend a hand gratis at the capstan whenever required. tribute work n. ΚΠ 1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) 127 What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different forms of ‘tut work’ as compared with ‘tribute work’? c. tribute-bearing n. tribute-paying n. ΚΠ 1860 J. Cairns Mem. J. Brown vi. 186 The true Christian doctrine of civil obedience and tribute paying. C2. tribute-children n. children surrendered as tribute. ΚΠ 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 332 Farre the greatest part of these tribute children taken from their Christian parents,..hee caused to bee dispierced into euerie citie and countrey of his dominion in Asia. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 510 (margin) The Iemoglans, or tribute-children. tribute rice n. Chinese History a grain tax paid in kind. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun] > paid in produce scat haver1344 scat malt1438 assize-herring1597 forester oats1794 tribute rice1853 1853 North-China Herald 26 Mar. 134/4 (heading) Destruction of the Che Híen's House and tribute rice. 1959 P. Fleming Siege at Peking v. 61 Tungchow, whose prosperity depended on its status as an entrepot for tribute-rice brought by canal from the interior, had economic as well as ideological motives for disliking the railway. Draft additions March 2003 tribute band n. a band which plays the music of another more famous group (or performer), often imitating them in appearance and performance style. ΚΠ 1979 Washington Post 9 Oct. c3/2 This is not just a memorial band, a tribute band. It's a working group of some of the best musicians that passed through the [Mingus] Jazz Workshop. 2001 Heat 28 Apr. 22 Hear'say have well and truly made it. If a record-breaking Number One single and album and a huge fanbase weren't proof enough, they have now spawned a tribute band—the cheekily named Near'say. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tributev. Brit. /ˈtrɪbjuːt/, U.S. /ˈtrɪbjut/ Etymology: < tribute n. †1. intransitive. To yield tribute; transitive to pay as tribute. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tribute > pay or yield tribute [verb (intransitive)] tributec1440 contributec1592 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tribute > pay tribute [verb (transitive)] lastc1275 render1526 tribute1570 rent1613 c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 555 But hem I sette in wel pastyned londe, And they tributed with felicite. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qii/2 To Tribute, tribuere. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 302 Amorous Trifler, that spendeth..his Afternoones in discourse with Paint, or Lust, tributing most precious Minutes, to the Scepter of a Fanne. 2. Mining. transitive and intransitive. To work on tribute. ΚΠ 1855 [see tributing n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 152 Dolcoath miners,..tut-working and tributing, to send up copper for coinage, for tea-urns, for tea-kettles, and for trinkets. Derivatives ˈtributed adj. ΚΠ 1912 Times 19 Dec. 19/1 From all of the tributed properties they were receiving revenue. ˈtributing n. and adj. ΚΠ 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 143 Tributing..is a business requiring keen judgment and close application. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 10/4 All the tributing parties, owing to their being unable to earn a living, threw up their contracts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1340v.c1440
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