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Definition of Gromets
1. gromet [n] - See also: gromet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gromets
Literary usage of Gromets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Resolved, That gromets be allowed fourteen shillings and three pence a month,
and boys nine shillings and six pence; whereof one shilling to be paid to the ..."
2. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, [during the Commonwealth by Great Britain Public Record Office (1878)
"That the wages of all not capable of the aforesaid duties be continued at ] 9s.
a month, boys and gromets excepted. 4. That the captain, master, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"Bailey explains " gromets or Grom- wells, the most servile persons on ship-board,"
probably, metaphorically, from " Gromet or Grummet," " small rings," adds ..."
4. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1849)
"... to the surgeon, 15*. to the gunner, and \\s.3d. to the quarter- gunner ; while
the foremast men received 10*. per mensem, the gromets 7*. ..."
5. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"The backstays, which now pass through the gromets of both sails, are attached as
before. A sheet is attached to the starboard lower corner of the dado, ..."
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