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From: "Judith Werner" <>
Subject: Re: [OEL] Marine store
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:15:45 -0700
References: <JjHUesBKdZIAFwJh@varneys.demon.co.uk>


OED doesn't give an etymology for this term but their definition of
tagarene (or tagareen) seems to show how 'marine store' originated.
You can see how it must have spread thereafter to areas away from
shores and rivers.

tagarene shop: An old clothes or rag shop; marine store. Hence
tagarene-man, the keeper of a marine store, esp. one who visits ships
in dock or harbour with a boatful of wares for exchange.


Judith Werner
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Administrator, OLD-ENGLISH-L
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/


: >Twice in the past 2 days I have come across a term not previously
encountered,
: >viz. "marine store dealer". These were not in seaside locations,
but in
: >Dunstable, Beds. and Windsor, Berks.








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