Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book in which muster-rolls are written.
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Examples
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He was expected to choose his own lieutenant (_ibid. _), to keep a muster-book, and a careful account of the petty officer's stores (_Monson_ and _Sir Richard Hawkins_), and to punish any offences committed by his subordinates.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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He kept the ship's muster-book, with some account of every man borne upon it.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Thus a conjecture of Mr. Collier's may confidently be discarded, who in the muster-book of a hundred in Warwickshire has noted the record of one
A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875
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The next step, after the ship is commissioned, is to open a muster-book.
The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862
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Shadow will serve for summer; prick him, for we have a number of shadows to fill up the muster-book.
Act III. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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_Guerrière_ is taken from the _Constitution's_ muster-book (in the
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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