adventure : Idioms & Phrases


A bill of adventure

  • (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.
Webster 1913

adventure story

  • noun a story of an adventure
    heroic tale.
WordNet

Bill of adventure

  • . See under Adventure.
Webster 1913

Gross adventure

  • (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
Webster 1913