| 单词 | house mail |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse mail ΚΠ a1542 in P. H. Brown Scotl. before 1700 (1893) (modernized text) 37 To the good-wife of the house where the Herald of Flanders was lodged, for the housemail the time of his being there, iij ll. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 125 Gif thy mail-man will not pay to thee the house maill at the terme. 1640 R. Baillie Let. 18 Nov. (1841) I. 272 Our house maills everie week above eleven pound Sterling. 1721 in H. Paton Minnigaff Parish Rec. (1939) 375 Lent to Janet M'Kie one of our enrooled poor to help to pay her hous male twelve pence. 1893 P. H. Waddell Old Kirk Chron. 157 Those who received regular help were called the Session's ‘pensioners’; and what they got was usually valued in victual and ‘house mail’. < as lemmas |
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