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单词 wax-shot
释义 wax-shot Obs. exc. Hist.
[wax n.1 + shot n.1 OE. had weaxᵹescot (Wulfstan): whence the form wax-scot in 18–19th cent. Dicts.]
A customary payment made for the maintenance of lights in churches.
15..Eng. Gilds (1870) 190 marg., To paye for the mayntenyng off the wax and lights, iiij. d. [marg., in later hand, ‘Waxshote’].15..in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Ser. ii. XIV. 232 Every householder payeth..for Wax-shot and Gardens two pence.1664[see mainport].1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Waxshot or Wax-scot.1829[J. Chambers] Gen. Hist. Norfolk II. 968 note, Ceragium, or waxshot, was the term used for money expended in church lights.
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