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Venturer   Listen
noun
Venturer  n.  
1.
One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.
2.
A strumpet; a prostitute. (R.)





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"Venturer" Quotes from Famous Books



... carriers is probably Hobson, of Cambridge. He was sung by Milton, and bequeathed to the town Hobson's conduit which cleanses the Cambridge gutters. To him is also ascribed the phrase Hobson's choice, from his custom of refusing to let out his horses except in strict rotation. But we find a merchant venturer, living in Japan, using "Hodgson's choice" fourteen years before the carrier left this world and became ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley


Words linked to "Venturer" :   hothead, somebody, mortal, merchant-venturer, venture, someone, speculator, mercenary, merchant, lunatic, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt, person, plunger, harum-scarum, mountaineer, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, individual, merchandiser, swashbuckler, gambler, daredevil, cowboy, Casanova de Seingalt, madcap, risk taker, Casanova, adventurer, argonaut


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