单词 | hencote |
释义 | hencoten. Now English regional (chiefly northern). A small shed in which chickens are kept; a henhouse.Apparently only recorded in place and street names between the late Middle English period and the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > poultry-house roostlOE hencote1371 henhouse1429 poultry house1552 hen roosta1567 roosting place1577 hennery1833 scratching-shed1902 1371 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 94 (MED) Hennecoote. a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 670/35 Hoc gallinarium, henecote. 1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. 129 Addy had just left her companion exploring some secret recess of the hencote. 1893 Morning Post 23 Oct. 3/2 People..asserted their right to a common by formally destroying a hencote and shippon, which the owner..declined to remove. 2016 Leek (Staffs.) Post & Times (Nexis) 5 May 39 Other outbuildings include a log/tractor store, hencote and field shelter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmashen-cote b. Now chiefly in combination, as in dove-cote, hen-cote, sheep-cote, bell-cote (in which cot also occurs); and in more local use, pig-cote, swine-cote, peat-cote, salt-cote, etc., which see. < n.1371 as lemmas |
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