Word Meanings - CRIMPAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

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• SHIPPO
  Cloisonné enamel on a background of metal or porcelain.
• SHIPPER
  One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
• CRIMPER
  One who, or that which, crimps; as: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
• CRIMPY
  Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.
• CRIMPAGE
  The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• SHIPPING
  1. Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns. 2. Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• CRIMPLE
  To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl. Wiseman.
• SHIPPON
  A cowhouse; a shippen. Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows, the shippon, or churn, or make cheese. Dickens.
• SHIPPING NOTE
  A document used in shipping goods by sea. In the case of free goods the shipping notes are the receiving note, addressed by the shipper to the chief officer of the vessel, requesting him to receive on board specified goods, and a receipt for the
• ENLIST
  1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. 2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men. 3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons
• ENLISTMENT
  1. The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor. 2. The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• SHIPPEN
  A stable; a cowhouse.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• SCRIMPINGLY
  In a scrimping manner.
• RESHIPPER
  One who reships.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.