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purser
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Word definitions for purser in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "treasurer," especially "caretaker of accounts and provisions on a ship," originally also "maker of purses" (late 15c.), agent noun from Middle English purse (see purse (n.)). From late 13c. as a surname.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purser \Purs"er\, n. [See Purse , and cf. Bursar .] (Naut.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster . A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep ...
Usage examples of purser.
Cummings, the purser, a small, plump, amiable, and infinitely shrewd irishman was, next to Bullen, the most important man on the ship.
One hour having expired since he had come on board, he ordered his boat, and returned to the shore, and we saw no more of him until we arrived at Spithead, when his lordship came on board, accompanied by a person whom we soon discovered was a half pay purser in the navy: a man who, by dint of the grossest flattery and numerous little attentions, had so completely ingratiated himself with his patron, that he had become as necessary an appendage to the travelling equipage, as the portmanteau or the valet-de-chambre.
The surgeon was assisted by Petreckski, their monkish purser, his brown robe well concealing the blood of their wounded.
Melville had thought so at the time, but now here he was, stranded on a distant planet with a mad dwarven marine sergeant, a monkish purser, a beautiful elven surgeon, and a crew of stranded sailors, surrounded by dead aliens.
I did not again see Schnitzel until, with haggard eyes and suspiciously wet hair, he joined the captain, doctor, purser, and myself at breakfast.
As for your greenstuff, my purser has an excellent unofficial man on shore, will rouse you out any quantity in half an hour.
If Purser Linde had a problem with being called Boobs, she concealed it behind a mask of wary silence.
The other pages recorded his trips, his efficiency ratings, and other permanent data, each properly signed by the first officers and pursers concerned.
But the ships you served in are mostly out of commission and none of the pursers happens to be in Earthport now.
Captains and pursers kept shaking their heads, or asking for more money than the sisters could afford.
This task completed, he stood by while the others signed in their various capacities - Irene as Mate, Tallentire as Second Mate, Bronheim as Chief Engineer, Metzenther as Communications Officer, and Susanna as Purser.
I started as a purser on the Brotherhood ships, but traveling got old.
Molesworth, the nervous-looking purser, was waiting by the mizzen, and Bolitho guessed that Cairns was going ashore with him to bolster his dealings with the victuallers, who, like ships' chandlers, thought more of personal profit than patriotism.
I'm the systems engineer on the Cambria, with double duty as purser when we have passengers.
My purser provides everything, and keeps a regular account, which I sign as correct, and send home to government, which defrays the whole expenses, under the head of conciliation money.