wood ticket

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a ticket given by steamer captains in return for wood taken on as fuel, the supplier later claiming payment at the steamship company's head office.

Quotations

1945

The captains carried books of "Wood Tickets," bound with stubs like cheque-books. . . .