单词 | footbreed |
释义 | footbreedn. In later use Scottish. Now rare. = foot breadth n.In quot. 1568: a small piece of land. Sc. National Dict. (at Fit) records the word (in form fit-breed) as still in use in Selkirkshire in 1951. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > breadth of foot footbreed?a1425 foot breadth1535 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 25 The treessez..hafez lefes of a fute brede. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xi. 365 He gert men mony pottis ma Of a fut breid [1489 Adv. fute-breid] round. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vi. 127 Lat nevir his feris weild Ane fut braid of Italiane ground nor feyld. 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1934) I. f. 137v My berne..hes of hir awin..Ane calf, ane hog, ane futebraid sawin. a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 40 His brother Dawid quhome he never sufferit to pase ane futebraid frome him. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 371 Charge them to halt, nor move on foot bred more. 1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots Acts vii. 211 God gíed him nae haudin here—na, no sae muckle as a fit-breid o grund. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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