store-keeper

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• Keeper

  ·noun One who remains or keeps in a place or position. II. Keeper ·noun A fruit that keeps well; as...

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• Store

  ·adj Accumulated; hoarded. II. Store ·vt Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or re...

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• store

  n. a bullock, cow, or sheep bought to befattened for the market. 1874. W. H. L. Ranken, `Dominion ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• store

  In the United States and Canada, shops of every kind for the sale of goods whether at wholesale or r...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Door-keeper

  This word is used in Ps. 84:10 (R.V. marg., "stand at the threshold of," etc.), but there it signifi...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• book-keeper

  One who never returns borrowed books. Out of one's books; out of one's fevor. Out of his books; out ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• conscience keeper

  A superior, who by his influence makes his dependants act as he pleases. ...

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• hut-keeper

  n. Explained in quotations. 1802. D. Collins, `Account of New South Wales,' vol. ii. p. 285: «Old...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• shanty-keeper

  n. keeper of a sly-grog shop. 1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for Mail,' p. 45: «Mrs. Smith was a...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• stock-keeper

  n. equivalent to a shepherd,or herdsman. 1821. Governor Macquarie, `Government Notice,' June 30, 1...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• boat-keeper

  One of the boat's crew who remains in charge of her during the absence of the others. In small vesse...

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• ship-keeper

  An officer not much given to going on shore. Also, the man who has charge of a ship whilst she is wi...

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• time-keeper

  , chronometer An instrument adapted for measuring mean time. The result of many years of study and e...

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• Department store

  ·add. ·- A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, ·esp. o...

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• Re-store

  ·vt To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored. ...

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• store-cattle

  n. lean cattle bought to befattened for the market; often contracted to stores (q.v.). 1885. R. M....

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• store pay

  Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• store-ship

  A government vessel appropriated for carrying munitions and stores. ...

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• to set store by

  To value; esteem; regard. This sense of the word store is not noticed by the English or American lex...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bill of store

  A kind of license, or custom-house permission, for re-importing unsold goods from foreign ports duty...

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• boatswain's store-room

  Built expressly for boatswain's stores, on a platform or light deck. ...

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• captain's store-room

  A place of reserve on the platform deck, for the captain's wines and sea-stores. ...

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• carpenter's store-room

  An apartment built below, on the platform-deck, for keeping the carpenter's stores and spare tools i...

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• lieutenant's store-room

  More commonly called the ward-room store-room (which see). ...

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• naval store-ship

  A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations. ...

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