单词 | justment |
释义 | justmentn.1 English regional (south-western). Now rare. 1. The pasturing of another person's cattle for payment; an amount levied or paid for this. Also attributive, as justment ground, justment rent. Cf. agistment n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > agistment gistment1511 agistment1537 joist1558 justment1597 agisting1598 agistation1686 agistage1691 gisement1695 gisting1829 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent gistment1511 agistment1537 joist1558 justment rent1597 agisting1598 agistation1686 agistage1691 gisement1695 gisting1829 1597 in J. Watkins Ess. Hist. Bideford (1792) 100 Parishioners that do hold ground att justment Rent did pay a penny of every shilling, or the full. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 107 Whether hath or doth the Lord imploy any land to Iustment, as in taking in cattle to pasture and herbage. 1622–3 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 30 Sheep and other stock at Ottry upon the Justment grounds there £48. a1636 T. Westcote View Devonshire 1630 (1845) 323 The farm then let at justment for £4. 13s. 1723 C. Morris Diary 20 Apr. (1934) 96 John Chasey came, & I ordered him to take in Justments. 1792 Viner's Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity (ed. 2) V. 527 Only 10 s. per ann. in lieu of tithes or justment for his 8th part in West Barton. 1834 N. Simons & J. Stuart Rep. Cases Chanc. IV. 246 All Grounds lying in the Parish of Yatton and Kenn hired by strangers that live out of the Parish, or those of the Parish that do not eat them with profitable Cattle, but altogether with unprofitable Cattle, pay Justments, 4d. an Acre. 1914 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 46 306 Full particulars of the emoluments were set forth, which were tithes on wool, lambs,..geese and honey, justment ground (i.e. agistment). 2. A piece of land of which the pasture or grazing is let. Also objective, as justment-holder. ΚΠ 1715 Exeter Merc. 16 Sept. 5 To rent from Michaelmas next, a Justment of between Thirty and Forty Pounds a Year..haveing a large Orchard now in its Prime. 1755 H. Stafford Treat. Cyder-making 3 The wiser farmers and justment-holders. 1904 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 36 398 I myself was parish clerk..and was paid my wages four pence of every householder as well of justment holders as freeholders. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † justmentn.2 Obsolete. rare. In plural. Due ceremonies or formalities, esp. funeral rites, obsequies. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] officec1300 exequy1382 obsequyc1385 exequy1389 mortuaryc1450 funeral1513 obit1525 funeral honoursa1535 last offices1535 justments1648 pompe funèbre1934 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. C6 Neither haire was cut, or true teares shed By me, o'r thee, (as justments to the dead). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11597n.21648 |
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