Purser vs Pursed - What's the difference?
purser | pursed |
The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser' s office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
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*:If we offend against any of the other rules (A's or B's) - that is if we, say, utter the formula incorrectly, or if, say, we are not in a position to do the act because we are, say, married already, or it is the purser and not the captain who is conducting the ceremony, then the act in question, e.g. marrying, is not successfully performed at all, does not come off, is not achieved.
(purse)
A small bag for carrying money.
* 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
(US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
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(historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
* Shakespeare
To put into a purse.
* Shakespeare
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
As a noun purser
is the person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.As a verb pursed is
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(wikipedia purse)Noun
(en noun)- And then mu?t many a man occupie as farre as his pur?e would reache, and ?tretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
- It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
Synonyms
* (small bag for carrying money) pocketbook; coin purse, change purse * (especially US) * (small bag used by women) handbag (especially UK) * (quantity of money) bursary, grantDerived terms
* common purse * make a silk purse of a sow's ear * murseSee also
* walletVerb
(purs)- When you're feeling in the dumps
- Don't be silly chumps
- Just purse your lips and whistle – that's the thing.
- Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
- I will go and purse the ducats straight.
- I'll purse : I'll bet at bowling alleys.