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单词 droveden
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drovedenn.

Brit. /ˈdrəʊvdɛn/, U.S. /ˈdroʊvˌdɛn/
Forms: see drove n. and den n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: drove n., den n.1
Etymology: < drove n. + den n.1 Earliest attested (in quots. a1300, ?c1350) as a vernacular word in a Latin sentence. Earlier currency is probably implied by post-classical Latin dravedenna (a1173 in a British source, in a 14th-cent. copy).Also attested in the early 14th cent. in Anglo-Norman:1332 in J. B. Sheppard Let. Bks. Monastery Christ Church Canterbury (1887) 490 Par les usages de Kent de drovedenn, le boys de cheyne et de fou deit estre le nostre, a copier, et a carier..et a entrier en noz drovedenn pur les cariages faire.
historical in later use.
In the Weald of Kent: a wooded hollow or tract of land into which pigs or other livestock may be driven to feed; the right or privilege to pasture livestock on such land; payment made to the owner of such land for this right or privilege. Cf. pannage n. 1a.
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drovedena1300
swine wroting?a1500
denn1936
a1300 in G. J. Turner & H. E. Salter Reg. St. Augustine’s Abbey Canterbury (1915) I. 235 Inde debetur drofdenne lesyeld in certo dongerium [etc.].
1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. viii. 265 It was usual in ancient Royal Donations of Manors lying out of the Weald, to render the grant more compleat by an additional Privilege of Common of Pannage..in one or more Dens in the Weald..And these Denns set out for the Agistment of Hogs and other Droves of Cattle, were thence called Drovedennes.
1778 E. Hasted Hist. Kent I. p. cxlii/2 A custom peculiar to the Weald, that the lords of whom the drovedennes were holden in gavelkind, should have all the great oaks, ash, and beech growing there, together with the pannage thereof, and the tenants only the underwoods.
1881 J. H. L. de Vaynes Kentish Garland I. xix. 123 These Dens were woody valleys, or places yielding both covert and feeding for swine and cattle, and such as were set apart specially for these purposes were termed Drovedennes.
1915 G. J. Turner & H. E. Salter Reg. of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury Introd. p. xlii It claims a place in any investigation of the peculiarly Kentish measures of land known as the sulung and the yoke, or in such rights in the woods as danger and drovedene, which are not found in other counties.
1985 A. Everitt Landscape & Community in Eng. iv. 82 The herdsmen moved each summer into the drovedens of the Weald.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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