Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not subjected to customs or duty; also, not having paid duty or been charged with customs; smuggled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Uncustomable; also, not having paid duty or customs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not subject to
customs duties ;uncustomable . - adjective Not having paid duty or customs.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A man and a woman are now in custody following the discovery of some 235 bottles of "uncustomed" alcoholic beverages at a No. 78 Village, Corentyne home.
Stabroek News 2009
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I was informed that the usual practice was to store uncustomed goods on lighters, and one must pay a premium for anything else.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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I was informed that the usual practice was to store uncustomed goods on lighters, and one must pay a premium for anything else.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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I was informed that the usual practice was to store uncustomed goods on lighters, and one must pay a premium for anything else.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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On leaving school the two brothers joined their father, Albert Edward Gripper, who owned a fishing smack, and worked for him until 1937 (December), when he was charged and convicted of various offences connected with the shipping of uncustomed goods.
The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952
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As for the Greeke, wherein I have but small understanding, my father purposed to make me learne it by art; But by new and uncustomed meanes, that is, by way of recreation and exercise.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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I command you to permit me to search your house for uncustomed goods; and went on to search the house from the garret to the cellar, and then served the constable in the same manner!
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--- Ye'll get nae saints to be searchers for uncustomed goods, or for thieves and sic like; --- and your decent sort of men, religious professors, and broken tradesmen, that are put into the like o 'sic trust, can do nae gude ava.
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I charged the hag to keep her patient's mind easy, and let her want for nothing that money could purchase, and I retreated to Fife, where, among my old associates of Wilson's gang, I hid myself in those places of concealment where the men engaged in that desperate trade are used to find security for themselves and their uncustomed goods.
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Wilson's gang, I hid myself in those places of concealment where the men engaged in that desperate trade are used to find security for themselves and their uncustomed goods.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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