[f. TICKET sb.1]
1. trans. To attach a ticket to; to mark with a ticket indicating the value, contents, description, origin, destination, or the like; to distinguish by means of a ticket; to label. Chiefly in pa. pple.
1611. [see ticketed below].
1691. Lond. Gaz., No. 2624/4. There being one of the said Bags missing, Ticketed 681. 3s. 6d.
1719. London & Wise, Compl. Gard., 107. Plant these Trees in Baskets, well ticketted, or … set down carefully in our Book.
1770. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 135/2. The post-boy … was robbed … of the mail … containing two bags, ticketed Newcastle, and Newcastle and York.
1810. Sporting Mag., XXXVI. 128. Pictures which are sold during the exhibition will be ticketed as such.
1839. Darwin, Voy. Nat., xvii. (1852), 395. Of those [specimens] which were ticketed with their locality, not one was common to any two of the Islands.
b. fig. To describe or mark as by a ticket; to designate, characterize, set down (as so and so): = LABEL v. b.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 435. I make no doubt but confident forwardnesse, and undertakings, would Ticket men passable … that could scarce tell which end of their Bibles to hold uppermost.
1713. Bentley, Rem. Disc. Free-think., § 40, II. 16. A few glittering Prizes … among an infinity of Blanks, drew troops of Adventurers; who, if the whole Fund had been equally ticketed, would never have come in.
1856. T. A. Trollope, Girlh. Cath. de Medici, i. 10. We find certain characters ticketed from age to age in history as monsters of atrocity.
1884. Chr. Commw., 14 Feb., 424/2. There is a present fashion of ticketing all outspoken religion as sham talk.
2. To furnish with a ticket; to issue a railway or other travelling ticket to; to ‘book’; also absol., to issue tickets. U.S.
1842. Longf., in Life (1891), I. 415. To borrow the expression of a fellow-traveller, we were ‘ticketed through to the depot.’
1852. Boston (Mass.) Traveller, 24 Dec., 3/2. Passengers ticketed through from New York to Cincinnati.
1882. Kansas City Jrnl., 19 Feb. Advt. We ticket directly to every place of importance.
3. intr. To make a tender for tin or copper ore by means of a ‘ticket’ or written tender: see TICKET sb.1 1 b, TICKETING vbl. sb. 2. local.
1778. Pryce, Min. Cornub., 287. Three hundred tons of Ore belonging to the same Mine were to be ticketed for on a day appointed.
Hence Ticketed ppl. a., marked with or bearing a ticket or tickets.
1611. Cotgr., Tiqueté, ticketted, or appointed by ticket.
1827. Scott, Chron. Canongate, vi. A hackney coach … that obscure vehicle, which was not permitted to degrade with its ticketed presence the dignity of Baliol’s Lodging.
1828. Dobie, Mem. W. Wilson of Crummock (1896), 100. On the ball night she was my ticketed companion.
1836–9. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Hor. Sparkins. A dirty-looking ticketed linen-draper’s shop, with goods of all kinds, and labels of all sorts and sizes, in the window.
