The official who superintended and noted down the exact quantity and species of provisions issued to the respective messes both of officers and men.
·vt To manage as a steward. II. Steward ·noun A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
There are several persons under this appellation in most ships, according to their size, appointed t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The person who manages the victualling or mess departments. In the navy, paymaster's steward. ...
A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The smallest dip-candle. ...
Sneers. ...
An assumed one. During the war, when pressed men caught at every opportunity to desert, they adopted...
The weight formerly used in the navy, by which the purser retained an eighth for waste, and the men ...
"Like a purser's shirt on a handspike;" a comparison for clothes fitting loosely. ...
A slop article, which stretched to any amount put into it. (See show a leg!.) ...
Hypocritical and satirical sneers. ...