单词 | alms tub |
释义 | > as lemmasalms tub alms tub n. now historical a large container used to store (esp. leftover) food or drink for distribution to the poor or needy. ΚΠ 1482 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 228 Item, for a lok for the almes tobbe, ij d. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. D3 Wine would soone fall from six and twentie pound a tunne,..and take vp his Inne with wast beere in the almes tub. 1841 R. Brown Domest. Archit. 27 By the hall-skreen stood the alms-tub, from which the steward and almoner distributed a dole of meal to each. 1980 C. Erickson Great Harry xiii. 97 The dogs..made off with scraps from the alms tubs that held the leavings of the meal. < as lemmas |
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