Definition of Ticketing

1. n. A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

Definition of Ticketing

1. Noun. The issuing or selling of tickets ¹

2. Noun. (UK mining dated) A periodic sale of ore in the mining districts, in which buyers wrote their bids upon tickets. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ticketing

1. ticket [v] - See also: ticket

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ticketing

ticket holder
ticket inspector
ticket inspectors
ticket line
ticket office
ticket offices
ticket stub
ticket taker
ticket tout
ticket touts
ticket window
ticketed
ticketh
ticketholder
ticketholders
ticketing (current term)
ticketings
ticketless
ticketlessness
tickets
tickety-boo
tickety boo
tickey
tickey-box
tickey-boxes
tickey box
tickey boxes
tickeys
tickies
ticking

Literary usage of Ticketing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 'West Barbary,' Or Notes on the System of Work and Wages in the Cornish by Langford Lovell Frederic Rice Price (1891)
"This practice of ticketing has been recently revived in the sales of tin, and its revival has excited considerable local discussion, as it 7 Cf. ' Quarterly ..."

2. A Manual of Practical Assaying by John Mitchell, William Crookes (1888)
"... assayer at Cornwall, whose duty it is to estimate the richness in copper of all the lots of minerals in the county sold every Thursday at the ticketing, ..."

3. The Explorers' and Assayers' Companion: Rocks, Veins, Testing and Assaying by Josiah Samuel Phillips (1879)
"ticketing FOE COPPER.—The smelters and buyers demand that all copper ores shall be crushed to the size of coffee berries, and then mixed into round piles ..."

4. Canada in 1849: Pictures of Canadian Life, Or, the Emigrant Churchman by A. W. H. Rose, Henry Christmas (1850)
"... of luggage—Mode of ticketing it. WHEN I at first went into the United States for anything like a travel, winter was fast setting in. ..."

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