单词 | goose-house |
释义 | goose-housen. 1. A small house or shed in which geese are shut up for the night. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1474 |
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