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单词 gneeve
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gneeven.

Brit. /(ɡ)niːv/, U.S. /niv/, /ɡəˈniv/, Irish English /ɡniːv/
Forms: Also 1700s gineve.
Etymology: < Irish gniomh work, act. The term is said to be still in use in the S. of Ireland.
Anglo-Irish.
The twelfth part of a ploughland.
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1638 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) 1st Ser. V. 50 Paid..for the purchace of 4 gneeves of land.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 107 As to their Town-lands, Plough-lands, Colps, Gneeves [printed Gneeres]..they are all at this day become unequal both in Quantity and Value, having been made upon grounds which are now Obsolete and Antiquated.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 85 Land is let by the plough land and gineve, 12 gineves to the plough land.
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