ship's articles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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In the mess room the boys found a compact, black-haired, serious-faced young man of unknown nationality reading the ship's articles in an expressionless tone.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
Furthermore, he never signed a ship's articles unless he thought there was considerable money in it somewhere.
From The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes
Whatever the captain does is right, ipso facto, and any opposition to it is wrong, on board ship; and every officer and man knows this when he signs the ship's articles.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
The affidavits read, Wilson, who, all the while, looked as stiff as a poker, solemnly drew forth the ship's articles from their tin case.
From Omoo by Herman Melville
"Is this your handwriting on the ship's articles, and in the store-room account-book?"
From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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