See Also: purser(medicine)
purser(dictionary)
purser(dictionary)

purser (iou)



purser noun. ME.
[from PURSE noun + -ER1.]
A maker of purses. ME-M17.
a. An officer in charge of money and accounts; a purse-bearer, a treasurer. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
b. An officer on board ship who keeps the accounts and sometimes has charge of the provisions. Now (spec.) the head steward in a passenger vessel; an officer with a similar function on a passenger aircraft. LME.
G. Greene The purser took the last landing-card.
A ship fishing with purse-nets. M20.
attrib.: Shetland Times The whole purser fleet is fishing for mackerel.
pursership noun the office or position of purser E17.