单词 | victualling-office |
释义 | victualling-officen. a. An office concerned with the victualling of ships, esp. of ships of the Royal Navy. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > offices concerned with shipping victualling-office1668 ballast office1677 shipping-office1840 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > victualling-office victualling-office1668 1668 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 278 The Place was originally called Maison de diew, but now his Ma[jes]tis victualing office in this Port is seated there. 1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal i. i. 9 We..pry into the Rogueries of the Victualling-Office. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Dover The courts of chancery, admiralty, &c. relating to them all, are kept in St. James's Ch. and here are a custom-house and victualling-office. 1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 48 The Labourers of Portsmouth Victualling Office are..employed in extra Hours. 1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate iii Now, my wife had keepit a victualling office. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 350 The Victualling Office at Plymouth..is now brought almost into juxta-position with it [sc. the Dockyard]. b. Boxing slang. The stomach. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun] maweOE wombOE codc1275 cropc1325 gut1362 stomachc1374 bellyc1375 pauncha1393 flanka1398 heartc1400 kitchen?a1500 kytec1540 micklewame1566 craw1574 ventricle1574 pudding house1583 buck1607 wame1611 ventricule1677 ventriculus1710 victualling-office1751 breadbasket1753 haggis1757 haggis bagc1775 baggie1786 pechan1786 manyplies1787 middle piece1817 inner man1856 inner woman1857 tum-tum1864 tum1867 tummy1867 keg1887 stummick1888 kishke1902 shit-bag1902 Little Mary1903 puku1917 Maconochie1919 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cviii. 259 He..found it impracticable to smite his antagonist upon the victualling-office. 1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue 1820 Sporting Mag. 6 80 Spring put in a heavy claim on his opponent's victualling office. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1668 |
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