单词 | farmhold |
释义 | farmholdn. Originally: (an area of) leased or rented land, esp. used for cultivation. In later use: an area of land held and used for agricultural purposes.In early use with reference to counties in northern England, esp. Yorkshire. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] townOE wick1086 farm1414 gainery1424 farmhold1471 room?a1513 farm place1526 colony1566 labouring1604 podere1605 fund1694 location1813 bowery1842 ranch1865 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] farmhold1471 1471 in C. T. Clay Yorks. Deeds (1930) 5 (MED) William Clayton..chalangeth termys and tytyll of Fermhold in owe Grange calde Bentley. 1567 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 275 I geue to my wyf Agness..the leas of my fremhold during hir lyf naturall. c1613 (c1488) in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 68 He thinks to have the farm-hould for 2vijs. viiid. in one yeare; but he shall not. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 5 a A fearme is called in Lancashire a fermeholt. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 151 Grants, fermholds, annuities, corridies. 1882 G. Ornsby York 27 Under a corrupted form it [sc. the name Jacobi villa] probably still survives in the appellation of a farmhold. 1936 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 23 186 Working conditions in the cities during the boom period did not permit the accumulation of the necessary minimum for wage earners to exercise the ‘privilege’ of taking up farmholds on the frontier. 1998 Environmental Hist. 3 366 Seasonal labor migration once relieved population pressures on small farmholds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1471 |
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