Lammasn.
/ˈlaməs/, U.S. /ˈlæməs/ 1. The 1st of August (Festum Sancti Petri ad Vincula in the Roman calendar; see also gule n.2), in the early English church observed as a harvest festival, at which loaves of bread were consecrated, made from the first ripe corn. (In Scotland, one of the usual quarter-days.) Also, the part of the year marked by this festival.latter Lammas: see latter adj. 2b(b).
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lammas (1 August) > [noun]
Lammasc893
Lammas-dayc1000
Petermasc1275
the Gule of August1543
Yule of August1652
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. v. xiii. §2 Þæt (wæs) on þære tide calendas Agustus, & on þæm dæge þe we hatað ‘hlaf~mæsse’.
1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1135 (Laud) On þis ȝære for se king..ouer sæ æt te Lammasse.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 37/124 Bi-fore lamasse seueniȝht.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 421 I salle at Lammese take leue.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 286/1 Lammesse, festum agnorum, vel Festum ad Vincula Sancti Petri.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. (1482) ccxliv. 296 To mete at southampton by lammasse next sewyng without ony delay.
1570 Reg. Ministers in Lauder's Tractate (1864) Pref. 10 William Lauder, Minister of Forgondynye (in 1567), [his stipend] iiijxxli. [£80], and xxli. mair sen Lambmes, 1569.
a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) II. 393 Adam, called Bishop of Orkney, was delated for not visiting the kirks of his countrie, from Lambmesse to Allhallowmesse.
1716 J. Addison Drummer v. 47 Six Year old last Lammas.
1833 Tennyson in Mem. (1897) I. 112 A voice ran round the hills When corny Lammas bound the sheaves.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of
flaxen wheat?1523
whole wheat1527
tiphe1578
Lammas-wheat1594
frumenty1600
Lammas1677
creeping wheat1819
mummy wheat1842
dinkel1866
marquis1906
durum1908
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of wheat grain or plant
spelta1000
farc1420
ador?1440
flaxen wheat?1523
Peak-wheat?1523
red wheat?1523
white wheat?1523
duck-bill wheat1553
zea1562
alica1565
buck1577
amelcorn1578
horse-flower1578
tiphe1578
pollard1580
rivet1580
Saracen's corn1585
French wheat1593
Lammas-wheat1594
starch corn1597
St. Peter's corn1597
frumenty1600
secourgeon1600
polwheat1601
duck-wheat1611
kidneys of wheat1611
ograve wheat1616
soft wheat1640
cone-wheat1677
Lammas1677
Poland wheat1686
Saracen corn1687
pole rivet1707
Smyrna wheat1735
hard wheat1757
hen corn1765
velvet wheat1771
white straw1771
nonpareil1805
thick-set wheat1808
cone1826
farro1828
Polish wheat1832
velvet-ear wheat1837
sarrasin1840
mummy wheat1842
snowdrop1844
Red Fife1857
flint-wheat1859
dinkel1866
thick-set1875
spring1884
macaroni wheat1901
einkorn1904
marquis1906
durum1908
emmer1908
hedgehog wheat1909
speltoid1939
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 151 The white Lammas has both ears and grain white, and the red Lammas both red.
Compounds
C1. General attributive : chiefly with the sense of ‘occurring’ or (of fruits) ‘ripening at Lammas’.
Lammas-apple n.
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1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Lammas-apple.
Lammas-assize n.
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c1605 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 213 This yeare (1604) was lammasse sysies holden at Rippo'.
Lammas-eve n.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year
Candlemas1014
May Day1267
All Souls' Dayc1300
midsummer evena1400
firstc1400
Beltane1424
midsummer eve1426
quarter day1435
Beltane1456
mid-Sundaya1475
madding-day1568
Lord Mayor's day1591
Barnaby bright1595
Lammas-eve1597
All Saints' Night1607
Handsel Monday1635
distaff's day1648
long Barnabya1657
St. Valentine's eve1671
leet-day1690
All Fools' Day1702
Boxing Day1743
April Fool's Day1748
Royal Oak Day1759
box day1765
Oak-apple Day1802
All Souls' Eve1805
mischief night1830
Shick-shack Day1847
chalk-back day1851
call night1864
Nut-Monday1867
Arbor Day1872
April Fool's1873
Labour Day1884
Martinmas Sunday1885
call day1886
Samhain1888
Juneteenth1890
Mother's Day1890
Father's Day1908
Thinking Day1927
Punkie night1931
Tweede Nuwejaar1947
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lammas (1 August) > [noun] > eve of
Lammas-eve1597
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 19 Of all dayes in the yeare come Lammas Eue at night shall she be fourteene. View more context for this quotation
1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxvii. 17 I'm sure he'll grieve From Midsummer to Lammas Eve.
Lammas-feast n.
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1721 A. Ramsay Robert Richy & Sandy 40 We'll meikle miss his blyth and witty jest, At spaining time, or at our Lambmass feast.
Lammas-month n.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > August
AugustOE
Lammas-montha1387
Sere montha1697
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 369 Claudius bygan to regne in Lammesse monþe [L. mense Augusto].
Lammas-night n.
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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11650 In a lammasse niȝt..Out of Wurcetre he wende.
Lammas-tide n.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lammas (1 August) > [noun] > season of
Lammas-tidec1330
Lammas-time1362
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 221 Þe fift day it was after Lammesse tide, & writen is in þat pas, at Euesham gan þei ride.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 16 How long is it now to Lammas-tide ? View more context for this quotation
Lammas-time n.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lammas (1 August) > [noun] > season of
Lammas-tidec1330
Lammas-time1362
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. ix. 314 Bi this lyflode we mot lyue till Lammasse tyme.
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Lammas-day n. August 1.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lammas (1 August) > [noun]
Lammasc893
Lammas-dayc1000
Petermasc1275
the Gule of August1543
Yule of August1652
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 290 Nim of ðam gehalgedan hlafe þe man halige on hlafmæsse dæg.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8669 In a þoresdai it was & þe morwe al so After lammasse day þat þis dede was ydo.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 239 Of hem is þe feste [of] Lammesse day, þey Peter were brouȝt out of prisoun aboute Ester tyme.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 9 Wpoun the Lambes day, the king desyrit fra all his officiaris renunciatioun of thair offices.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. viii. 122 On the first of August (Lammas Day; that the Reader may not forget it).
Lammas growth n. [equivalent of German Johannestrieb St. John's shoot, in allusion to St. John the Baptist's day, 24 June] Forestry a shoot produced by a tree in summer, after a pause in growth.
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1950 F. S. Baker Princ. Silviculture xv. 302 So-called ‘lammas growth’ is common in some species... In vigorous young oak trees the lammas shoot formation may be repeated three or four times a season.
1971 T. T. Kozlowski Growth & Devel. Trees I. v. 204 Lammas growth often causes profuse branching and knotty lumber.
Lammas-land n. (see quot. 1875); similarly Lammas-field, Lammas-mead, Lammas-meadow-ground, Lammas-rights.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > Lammas lands
Lammas-land1694
1694 London Gaz. No. 2989/4 [It] has the benefit of a good Common, and several Acres of Lammas Meadow-Ground.
1787 S. Trimmer Œcon. Charity 113 The privilege of the people to turn in on the Lammas lands is insensibly sliding away.
1826 Sunday Times 27 Aug. 3/3 To enquire to whom the right of hiring, mowing or feeding-off the crops on King's or Lammas Meads vested.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 246 The Roman tribesman..would probably have followed the early custom retained in the regulations of the ‘Lammas fields’ in England, his arable resuming the character of common pasturage as soon as the crops were off the ground.
1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) x. 445 Thus our ‘Lammas Lands’ were so called, because they were private property until Lammas-day (August 1),..after which period they were subject to common rights of pasturage till the spring.
1892 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 19 Nov. 165/1 Lands which were subject to lammas rights had been acquired by the Ealing Local Board.
Lammas shoot n. = Lammas growth n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > young branch, twig, or shoot
sprittle?c1225
leader1572
arrow1574
graft1576
thief1669
leading shoot1712
coppice shoot1851
Lammas shoot1929
1929 T. Thomson tr. M. Büsgen Struct. & Life Forest Trees i. 10 The part of the annual shoot formed after the pause..appears as a new growth to which the name of Lammas Shoot has been given in view of the approximate date of its appearance... The lammas shoots of the oak are very vigorous.
1971 T. T. Kozlowski Growth & Devel. Trees I. v. 202 Lammas shoots often form in response to abundance of available water.
Lammas-tower n. (see quot. 17921).
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1792 Archæol. Scot. I. 194 Each of these communities agreed to build a tower in some conspicuous place..which was to serve as the place of their rendezvous on Lammas day.]
1792 Archæol. Scot. I. 198 The name of Lammas towers will remain..after the celebration of the festival has ceased.
Lammas-wheat n. = winter wheat.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of
flaxen wheat?1523
whole wheat1527
tiphe1578
Lammas-wheat1594
frumenty1600
Lammas1677
creeping wheat1819
mummy wheat1842
dinkel1866
marquis1906
durum1908
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of wheat grain or plant
spelta1000
farc1420
ador?1440
flaxen wheat?1523
Peak-wheat?1523
red wheat?1523
white wheat?1523
duck-bill wheat1553
zea1562
alica1565
buck1577
amelcorn1578
horse-flower1578
tiphe1578
pollard1580
rivet1580
Saracen's corn1585
French wheat1593
Lammas-wheat1594
starch corn1597
St. Peter's corn1597
frumenty1600
secourgeon1600
polwheat1601
duck-wheat1611
kidneys of wheat1611
ograve wheat1616
soft wheat1640
cone-wheat1677
Lammas1677
Poland wheat1686
Saracen corn1687
pole rivet1707
Smyrna wheat1735
hard wheat1757
hen corn1765
velvet wheat1771
white straw1771
nonpareil1805
thick-set wheat1808
cone1826
farro1828
Polish wheat1832
velvet-ear wheat1837
sarrasin1840
mummy wheat1842
snowdrop1844
Red Fife1857
flint-wheat1859
dinkel1866
thick-set1875
spring1884
macaroni wheat1901
einkorn1904
marquis1906
durum1908
emmer1908
hedgehog wheat1909
speltoid1939
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits i. 6 Some bring a plentifull increase of good Lammas Wheat.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 31 Winter, or Lammas Wheat—Triticum hybernum.
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