| 释义 |
ˈinseat Sc. ? Obs.
Also inset.
[f. in adv. + seat n.]
The general living-room in a farmhouse or cottage in Scotland in the 18th c.
1811Aiton View of Agric. Ayr 114 That part of the building which served the family for lodging, sleeping, cookery, dairy, etc., denominated the in-seat, was about 12 or at most 14 feet square. On larger farms, another of nearly the same dimensions, and which entered through the in-seat, was called the spense. 18..W. Watson Answ. Unco Bit Want Poems (1877) 67 (Jam. Supp.) The morn I sall speak to my father, To big us an inset an' spence. |