| 释义 |
laine local.|leɪn|
A name given to certain tracts of arable land at the foot of the Sussex Downs.
1794Ann. Agric. XXII. 219 Rent of the arable, including the laines, is 15s. per acre. Ibid. 230 The laines or bottoms..Laine land or arable. 1797Ibid. XXVIII. 124 His course is what is called in Sussex three laines, that is, wheat once in three years. 1881Sawyer Land Tenure Brighton in Proc. Incorp. Land Soc. 95 [Outside the boundaries of Brighton] were five large tracts of land, known as the Tenantry Laines, and called the East Laine, Little Laine, Hilly Laine, North Laine, and West Laine... These Laines were again divided into furlongs... The ‘Tenantry flock’ was..when taken from the Down, invariably kept in the fallow lands or grattens in the ‘Tenantry Laines’. 18..Spectator No. 2137. 574 (Cent.; reference erroneous) Light falls the rain on link and laine. |