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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
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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