| 释义 |
† ˈbeakment Obs. or dial.
Also beatment.
[perh. f. F. becquer to peck + -ment. Cf. Prof. Skeat's remarks on peck (the measure).]
‘A measure of about a quarter of a peck.’ Halliwell.
1673Depos. Yrk. Castle (1861) 194 She gott a beakment of wheat flower. 1863in Robson Bards of Tyne 252 The Farrier's cap Blew off..Into a huckster's shop it went—Now Martin's cap's a tatie beatment. |