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Tagarene. World English Historical Dictionary

Tagarene. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Tagarene north. dial. Also tag(a)reen. [Origin uncertain: perh. arbitrary formation on TAG sb.1] More fully tagarene shop: An old clothes or rag shop; a marine store. Hence tagarene-man, the keeper of a marine store, esp. one who visits ships in dock or harbor with a boatful of wares for exchange.

1 1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., s.v., ‘They keep a tagreen shop, an old clothes store; an old rope and rag depôt.

2 1894.  Northumb. Gloss., s.v., A ‘tagareen man’ has a floating shop which he rows about the tiers of ships, announcing his presence by a bell.

3 1900.  F. W. Bullen, With Christ at Sea, xi. 285. The skipper arrived with his crony the ‘tagarene’ man and a large supply of brandy.

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