unserviceable ticket

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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...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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

• Commutation ticket

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Tyburn ticket

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cancelled ticket

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• contract ticket

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• dead-ticket

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• discharge-ticket

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• leave-ticket

  See liberty-ticket. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• liberty-ticket

  A document specifying the date and extent of the leave granted to a seaman or marine proceeding on h...

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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. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• ticket-book

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• foreign remove-ticket

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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.