Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A detailed list of the winners in any competition for prizes, as a school examination or a flower-show.
  • noun Nautical, a return of all the persons on board entitled to receive prize-money at the time a capture is made.

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Examples

  • Anticipating a year ahead of prize-list reading to which I'm addicted and won't be able to resist, I thought I should really deal with some of last year's unread books before I gather in any more.

    So Many Ways to Begin 2007

  • Anticipating a year ahead of prize-list reading to which I'm addicted and won't be able to resist, I thought I should really deal with some of last year's unread books before I gather in any more.

    40 entries from May 2007 2007

  • Anticipating a year ahead of prize-list reading to which I'm addicted and won't be able to resist, I thought I should really deal with some of last year's unread books before I gather in any more.

    So Many Ways to Begin 2007

  • But this does not cover the difficulty, as the prize-money is of secondary importance to the majority of exhibitors -- being first on the prize-list is their main ambition; but, I believe, it is all that rules can reach.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • If the right man be put in the right place, there will seldom be cause to complain of overfed useless breeding animals gaining the prizes; but if ignorant forward men are appointed, you are certain to see the fattest animals at the top of the prize-list.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • Mr Geddes stood at the top of the Highland Society's prize-list at the Inverness show as the owner of the best aged shorthorned bull, and was a winner along with Mr John M'Kessock in the class of shorthorned heifers.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • Oh dear no; your prize-list is most imposing; the givers may well plume themselves on their munificence, and the competitors be monstrous keen on winning.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • The minister, on his return home, and glancing at the local newspaper, saw the report of the match, and the name of his own man in the prize-list.

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

  • Your eye happens to fall a day or two afterwards upon the prize-list advertised in the newspapers, and you discover that (curiously) the most distinguished and clever boy in that particular school is rewarded with the seventh prize.

    The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862

  • Here he had rushed down to the old Rector, his childless uncle, with the copy of the prize-list when his brother took his first-class.

    The Perpetual Curate 1862

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