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Galley :: Galley (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure..

Debenture :: Debenture (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.

Titling :: Titling (n.) Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.

Transire :: Transire (n.) A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

Tidewaiter :: Tidewaiter (n.) A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties..

Cocket :: Cocket (n.) A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.

Manifest :: Manifest (a.) A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse..

Customhouse :: Customhouse (n.) The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared..

Tidesman :: Tidesman (n.) A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse..

Warehouse :: Warehouse (v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid..

Postentry :: Postentry (n.) A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake..

Warehousing :: Warehousing (n.) The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store..

Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4..

Chophouse :: Chophouse (n.) A customhouse where transit duties are levied.

Manifest :: Manifest (v. t.) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

Entrance :: Entrance (n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day..

Douane :: Douane (n.) A customhouse.

Clearance :: Clearance (n.) A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.

Cocket :: Cocket (n.) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.

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