| 释义 |
ˈroomstead Now rare or Obs.
Also 7 roomesteade, 8 room stead.
[f. room n.1]
A compartment or division; a certain space or length.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 47 The greate roome⁓steade in the northende of the rye-barne helde all our winter corne this yeare. Ibid., As much as could possibly be layed in that roomsteade. 1691J. Gibson in Archaeologia XII. 188 Dr. Uvedale of Enfield... His greens take up six or seven houses or roomsteads. 1718in Trans. Cumb. & Westm. Archæol. Soc. (N.S.) III. 200 Benjamin Farish hath one firehouse containing two room steads..to lett. 1764Skeffling Inclosure Act 9 The pieces, parts, or room⁓steads of the earth-bank. 1800Tuke Agric. 93 A roomstead (i.e. one post and two rails), being 1s. 7d. including carriage. 1820W. Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 461 The carpenters had completely cleared the roomstead. Note, Roomstead is the space between any two ribs or frames of timber in a ship. |