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Trinity-House
Trinity-House a kind of college at Deptford, pertaining to a company or corporation of antient masters of ships, &c. who have
a power, by the king’s charter, to take cognisance of all those who destroy sea-marks,
and redress their doings, and also to correct the faults of sailors, &c. and to take
care of several other matters belonging to navigation; to examine young officers,
&c.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
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