liberty-ticket

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• Liberty

  ·noun Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. II. Liberty ·noun A curve or arch in a bit to af...

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• liberty

  Permission to go on shore or ship-visiting. ...

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• Ticket

  ·v A little note or notice. II. Ticket ·v A tradesman's bill or account. III. Ticket ·v A label to...

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• ticket

  An official warrant of discharge, so that a heavy penalty attaches to the loss of any of the blank o...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Tower Liberty

  Tower and fortifications with Tower Hill of the ancient demesne of the Crown with jurisdiction and p...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• breaking liberty

  Not returning at the appointed time. ...

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• liberty-day

  A day announced for permitting a part of the crew to go ashore. ...

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• liberty-liquor

  Spirits formerly allowed to be purchased when seamen had visitors; now forbidden. ...

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• liberty-men

  Those on leave of absence. ...

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• Commutation ticket

  ·add. ·- A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance...

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• Tyburn ticket

  ·- A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain paris...

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• Ticket Porters

  See Tackle House and Ticket Porters. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• split ticket

  When two or more important offices are to be filled at the same time, the wire-pullers of each party...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• walking ticket

  Orders to leave; a dismissal. When a person is appointed to a public office, or receives a commissio...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• branded ticket

  A discharge given to an infamous man, on which his character is written, and the reason he is turned...

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• cancelled ticket

  One rendered useless by some subsequent arrangement or clerk's error. In either case the word "cance...

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• contract ticket

  A printed form of agreement with every passenger in a passenger-ship, prescribed by the legislature....

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• dead-ticket

  Persons dying on board, those discharged from the service, and all officers promoted, are cleared fr...

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• discharge-ticket

  On all foreign stations men are discharged by foreign remove-tickets, and in other cases by dead, si...

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• leave-ticket

  See liberty-ticket. ...

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• sick-ticket

  A document given to an officer, seaman, or marine, when sent to an hospital, certified by the signin...

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• smart-ticket

  The certificate from a captain and surgeon, by which only the smart-money is obtainable. ...

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• ticket-book

  A register for accounting for all tickets and certificates received and used. ...

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• unserviceable ticket

  This is made out in the same manner, and requires the same notations, as a sick-ticket (which see), ...

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• foreign remove-ticket

  A document for discharging men from one ship to another on foreign stations: it is drawn up in the s...

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• Tackle House and Ticket Porters

  This Fellowship possessed the right of porterage of all unmeasurable goods, that of measureable good...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.