purser

name

1. A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of purses.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English purse English -er English purser From purse + -er.

1. The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.

   “So the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their accounts.”

   “There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.”