Small charges borne partly by a ship, and partly by a cargo, such as expenses of towing, &c.
·noun A tariff or duty on goods, ·etc. II. Average ·vt To do, accomplish, get, ·etc., on an average...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
the breaking of corn fields, edish, roughings. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Whether general or particular, is a term of ambiguous construction, meaning the damage incurred for ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·superl Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty pr...
A qualified person engaged in making statements to show the proper application of loss, damage, or e...
A written document signed by the consignees of a cargo, binding themselves to pay a certain proporti...
See average-adjuster. ...
A claim made upon the owners of a ship and her cargo, when the property of one or more has been sacr...
See Cannon Alley. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
West of St. Botolph Bishopsgate with a passage to Moorfields. In Bishopsgate Ward Without. Stow desc...
1) Tenements so called in parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, 1563, within the Clo...
A little dirty attorney, ready to undertake any litigious or bad cause: it is derived from the Frenc...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A divisional seaman of the first class, ranking with a sergeant or corporal. ...
North out of St. Paul's Churchyard and west to Paul's Alley. In Farringdon Ward Within (O. and M. 16...
Mentioned in 1672 in L. and P. Chas. II. Dom. S. XIII. p.626. Not further identified. ...