| 单词 |
dead pay |
| 释义 |
† dead pay Obs.
[Cf. F. morte-paye.]
1. Pay continued to a soldier, etc. no longer in active service; a soldier receiving such pay.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. Turkie iii. iv. 76 b, When these men..can serve no longer in the warres..they are sent as..keepers of castles and towns, whom we do cal dead payes. 1611Cotgr., Morte-payes, Dead-payes; Souldiers in ordinarie pay, for the gard of a fortresse, or frontier Towne, during their liues. 1685F. Spence House of Medici 339 The citizens and Dead-payes nabb'd the French at unawares. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2196/1 Janisaries..that being Superannuated..receive a dead Pay of so much a day.
2. Pay continued in the name of a soldier or sailor actually dead or discharged, and appropriated by the officer; a person in whose name such pay is drawn. (Cf. dead-share in dead D. 2.)
1565J. Calfhill Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846) 62 Like a covetous Captain will needs indent for a dead pay. 1627Bp. Hall Gt. Impostor Wks. 507 Like to some vnfaithfull captaine that hath..filled his purse with dead payes, made vp the number of his companies with borrowed men. 1639Massinger Unnat. Combat iv. ii, O you commanders That, like me, have no dead pays, nor can cozen The commissary at a muster. 1663Pepys Diary 13 Oct., The King..mustering the Guards the other day himself..found reason to dislike their condition..finding so many absent men, or dead pays. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dead-pay, that given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears. |
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