PART-OWNER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Part-owner

"Part-owner" Quotes from Famous Books

... letter from Ryan, of the North-West Mounted Police, to the Superintendent of No. 10, Above Discovery, a claim a little this side of the Forks. Ryan had warned them to keep out of the way of the part-owner, Scoville Austin, a surly person naturally, so exasperated at the tax, and so enraged at the rumour of Government spies masquerading as workmen, checking his reports, that he was "a first-rate man to avoid." ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... command was that of the magnificent ship Northern Light, of which I was part-owner. I had a right to be proud of her, for at that time—in the eighties—she was the finest American sailing-vessel afloat. Afterward I owned and sailed the Aquidneck, a little bark which of all man's handiwork seemed to me the nearest to perfection of beauty, and which in speed, when ...

— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum

... a calm, clear evening in late summer as the Elizabeth Ann, of Pembray, scorning the expensive aid of a tug, threaded her way down the London river under canvas. The crew were busy forward, and the master and part-owner—a fussy little man, deeply imbued with a sense of his own importance and cleverness—was at the wheel chatting with the mate. While waiting for a portion of his cargo, he had passed the previous week pleasantly enough with some relatives in Exeter, and was now in a masterful fashion ...

— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs

... Jim did not attend preparation in the Great Hall with the common herd of the Houses, but was part-owner ...

— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse