单词 | land-end |
释义 | land-endn. Now dialect. A piece of ground at the end of a ‘land’ in a ploughed field. (See also quots. 1877, 1893.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > headland headOE headlandOE lea-riga1170 Land's endc1394 headrig1475 hade?1523 land-end1555 furlong1649 hade-way1649 head-ridge1659 sideland1763 headmark1820 turn-row1885 1555 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) 17 119/2 For Reping doune ye corne yt growyde at mens landds endds ye wich was sooyd to farre upon the comon viijd. 1610 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 202 Tho. Skelton..tooke vjd a daie..and a land end of grass besides, of Geo. Osborne of the same. 1624 Rental in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (1888) Rich. Shirtclyffe had 8 land ends at will vijs. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. xv. 240 An' the eller tree blossoms like snaw was besprent On the land ends 'at ligs by the side o' the Trent. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Land-ends, (1) small portions of cultivated land between the Trent bank and the road, at the ends of the lands in the open fields, more commonly called groves. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Landin, Land-end, the end of a ridge or of a furrow in ploughing, or of a drill in drilling..where it meets the heedrig. 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) Heedlin'... Land end, head rig or head~land, or those butts in a ploughed field which lie at right angles to the general direction of the others. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1555 |
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