Sharp-built single-masted vessels armed, for the purpose of preventing smuggling, and enforcing the custom-house regulations. They are usually styled revenue-cruisers.
·noun Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise. II. Revenue ·noun That which returns, or come...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In cases of revenue proceedings, the law harshly provides that the onus probandi is to be on the cla...
The Sailor's Word-Book
of a ship are broader for their length, deeper and shorter in proportion than the barge or pinnace; ...
West out of Poor Jewry Lane. In Aldgate Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799), west of Northumberland Alle...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
South out of Half Moon Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 108). The site ...