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单词 goose-house
释义

goose-housen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgoose-house.
1. A small house or shed in which geese are shut up for the night.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > place where geese kept
goose-house1474
goose-par1552
goose-pena1616
goosery1828
1474–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 95 Pro le flaggynge de le goyshous.
1516–17 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 106 Laboranti ad le Gowsehouse.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xvi. 108 They must be put into the goosehouse, and kept asunder with hurdles.
1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 154 Pigsties, goose-houses, and hen-houses out of number.
2. A village lock-up.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > place of detention or lock-up
roundhousec1437
cagea1500
stress house1505
lock-up1746
goose-house1841
booby hatch1859
prison camp1865
hold-over1888
booby-hutch1889
charge-house1900
1841 Peter Parley's Ann. 241 Several others were..dragged off to what in the country is called, the goose-house—that is, the cage.
1847–89 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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