单词 | earth house |
释义 | earth housen. 1. a. An underground dwelling, basement, or chamber; = souterrain n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > cave or underground dwelling earth houseeOE cavec1220 bikea1522 mattamore1695 subterranean1714 subterrane1759 yurt1780 weem1792 subterrene1793 ice cave1810 gibber-gunyah1847 dugout1855 fogou1864 abri1887 pit house1907 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxxii. 146 Romane..worhton eorþhus for þære lyfte wylme. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 241 Apogeum uel subterraneum, eorðhus. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1191 Seouen ȝer wes Astrild i þissen eorð-huse [c1300 Otho erþhuse]. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2469 In on erþe hous þai lay. a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 121 Thay drew ham into Erthe-hous many. 1531 Court Bk. Barony of Carnwath f. 66v He held..ane ȝong kow & draif hyr furth of the erd hous to Newbiggin eftir that scho was pvt vnder fence. 1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 154 There are several little Stone-houses, built under Ground, called Earth-houses, which served to hide a few People and their Goods in time of War. 1893 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 6 83 In an interesting treatise entitled the ‘Underground Life’, Mr. David MacRitchie gives an account of earth houses or ‘weems’..of Scotland. 1918 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 6/2 The so-called ‘Picts' houses’ or ‘earth houses’—low underground passages terminating in one or more chambers. 1978 A. Ritchie & G. Ritchie Anc. Monuments Orkney 15 It is possible that some at least of the Orcadian earth-houses belong to this period after the abandonment of brochs. 2008 Compact Traveller (Nexis) 6 July 10 Follow the signposts..through a gate to nose around the Castlelaw Hill Fort and earth house or cellar. b. A dwelling made of earth. ΚΠ 1853 T. Parker Ten Serm. Relig. 330 Those things are to be regarded as the work of children, who have their snow-houses in winter, their earth-houses in summer. 1904 R. S. Hichens Garden of Allah (1905) ii. 140 The shadow of tall, windowless earth houses. 1946 P. Aller & D. Aller Build your own Adobe i. 9 They think earth attracts moisture and therefore an earth house must be damp. 1998 Mugarnas 15 152/2 In many Anatolian towns, flat-roofed earth houses coexisted with the Ottoman type. 2005 J. M. Bang Ecovillages 111 Some friends of mine made a small earth house... They..traced out the run of the walls..and put lumps of earth on top of each other till they had walls the right height. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] buriels854 througheOE burianOE graveOE lairc1000 lair-stowc1000 lich-restc1000 pitOE grass-bedOE buriness1175 earth housec1200 sepulchrec1200 tombc1300 lakec1320 buriala1325 monumenta1325 burying-place1382 resting placea1387 sepulturea1387 beda1400 earth-beda1400 longhousea1400 laystow1452 lying1480 delfa1500 worms' kitchen?a1500 bier1513 laystall1527 funeral?a1534 lay-bed1541 restall1557 cellarc1560 burying-grave1599 pit-hole1602 urn1607 cell1609 hearse1610 polyandrum1627 requietory1631 burial-place1633 mortuary1654 narrow cell1686 ground-sweat1699 sacred place1728 narrow house1792 plot1852 narrow bed1854 c1200 (?OE) Grave (1890) l. 15 Ladlic is þet eorðhus and grim inne to wunien. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Voices of Night (1843) 115 Loathsome is that earth-house, And grim within to dwell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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