| 释义 |
kirk-town Sc.
Also kirk-ton.
The town, village, or hamlet in which the parish church is: = church-town (church n. 18). b. A glebe.
1706Sempill Piper Kilbarchan in Chambers Pop. Hum. Scot. Poems (1862) 24 Or who can for our kirk-town cause Stand us in stead? 1864Glasgow Herald 16 May, The word Kirktoun..applied to all collections of houses, not farm touns, which surrounded parish kirks. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 136 The ordinary amount of Kirktown or glebe assigned to the church..was a half-davoch. a1894Stevenson Olalla Wks. 1895 III. 313 The mountain village, which was, as we say in Scotland, the kirk-ton of that thinly peopled district. |