| 单词 | hognel silver |
| 释义 | > as lemmashognel silver Perhaps: = hoggler n. In early use chiefly attributive in †hognel money, †hognel silver (cf. hoggling money n. at hoggling n. Compounds). ΚΠ 1457 in J. C. Cox Churchwardens' Accts. (1913) ii. 26 Hognel sylver. 1546 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 101 Recevid of the hognel money at the ffeast of the Nativitie of our lord God..viijli. xxiijs. vjd. 1562–3 in Catal. Manuscripts & Munim. Alleyn's Coll. Dulwich (1843) 338 Receyptes for mony some tyme called Oggnell mony. 1836 A. J. Kempe Loseley Manuscripts 163 Probably Hea Knell, corrupted into Hognell, being money collected for ringing the church bells at this time of the year, in celebration of the high feast of the Nativity of our Lord. 1857 in Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 4 441 Hognell~money seems connected with hock-money. 1987 R. Hutton in C. Haigh Eng. Reformation Revised vi. 124 With this disappeared the mysterious ‘hognels’ or ‘hogglers’, groups of parishioners who went about in the winter season apparently collecting for parish funds. 2007 New Rev. (Nexis) 23 Dec. 14 From the time that evidence survives, midwinter was a great time for the giving of food, drink or money to the less fortunate. In the Middle Ages people—known as hogglers or hognels—in each parish would often volunteer to collect and distribute them. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。