| 单词 | feeing market |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfeeing market The hiring of servants for a fee. feeing market, hiring market; a general semi-annual gathering of farm hands for the purpose of hiring themselves out for the next six months. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > recruitment or hiring hiringc1400 retainer1467 retainder1495 recruitment1793 employing1829 feeing1865 rehire1945 1865 W. H. L. Tester Poems 127 I'll tell ye a' About the Friday's feein'. 1875 W. Alexander Sketches Life among Ain Folk 220 On the feeing market night he had taken Baubie home to Briggies'. 1891 A. Gordon Folks o' Carglen iii. 66 In the town of Kail..there were three great hiring markets for farm-labourers in the course of the year. These were the ‘feein' Friday,’..‘hairst Monday’... By ten or eleven o'clock a huge concourse of people anxious to be ‘feed’..had assembled. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 29 May 10/1 The Inverness Feeing Market the other day..was like a military pageant... The recruiting sergeants were alert and busy. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Dec. 1086/3 Hawked at fairs and feeing~markets. < as lemmas |
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