tacklehouse

plural tacklehouses · alternative tackle-house · alternative tackle house

1. A building located at a port, and the corresponding business operated by one of the major shipping companies, that employs porters to load and unload goods from ships.

   On the other side of the Atlantic 'tacklehouse' and 'ticket' porters unloaded the ships.

   2003, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, page 167

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   The under beadle, Philip Huffa, was to be accommodated with lodgings above the tacklehouse, and the Company's cellars were built in beneath it.

   1977, Anne Crawford, A history of the Vintners' Company, page 167

   In 1648, the officers commissioned the company's carpenter and bricklayer to design and build a new tacklehouse by the river to assist merchants in unloading ships, a project that cost more than £20.

   1997, Joseph P. Ward, Metropolitan Communities: Trade Guilds, Identity, and Change in Early Modern London, page 50