ˈmuster-book
A book in which military forces are registered. Also, on a man-of-war, a book containing the names of the crew.
| 1587 Golding De Mornay (1592) 99 The beginning thereof is nothing els but a Musterbooke of names. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 146 Wee haue a number of shadowes to fill vppe the Muster-Booke. 1643 Davenant Unfort. Lovers iii. i, All that I read is in the Muster-book. 1702 Roy. Declar. 1 June in Lond. Gaz. No. 3815/3 [They] are..Required..to cause the said List to be Examined, by the Muster-Book of such Man of War. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Muster-book, a copy of a ship of war's open list, drawn up for the use of the clerk of the check, in calling over the crew. |
| fig. 1561 J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 296 All the Saintes, which before the commyng of Christ are written in the registers of the heauenly muster booke. |