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单词 leglen
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leglenn.

Brit. /ˈlɛɡlᵻn/, U.S. /ˈlɛɡlən/, Scottish English /ˈlɛɡlᵻn/
Forms:

α. Scottish pre-1700 lagallon, pre-1700 lagalloun, pre-1700 legallen, pre-1700 legalleoun, pre-1700 legalloun, pre-1700 legalone, pre-1700 leggallone.

β. English regional (northern) 1800s– leglen, 1900s– laiglen; Scottish pre-1700 laglein, pre-1700 laglond, pre-1700 laigland, pre-1700 laigleine, pre-1700 laiglon, pre-1700 ledglin, 1700s leaglin, 1700s 1900s– laiglen, 1700s–1800s leglan, 1700s– leglen, 1700s– leglin, 1900s– laiglin.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: lade-gallon n. at lade v. Compounds.
Etymology: Apparently a variant of lade-gallon n. at lade v. Compounds, with assimilation of the final consonant of the first element and (in β. forms) reduction of the second element.In leglen-girth n. at Compounds reflecting confusion with the unrelated laggin n. (compare earlier laggen-gird n. at laggin n. Compounds).
Scottish and English regional (northern).
A wooden pail, esp. one with a projecting stave for use as a handle, typically used for carrying milk; a piggin.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking-pail
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1558 in R. Adam Edinb. Rec. (1899) I. 249 Coft twa wyne puntionis to be skeffetting.., Item, for ane auld legalleoun, xij d.
1611 Edinb. Test. XLVI. 237 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane gylefat,..tua laiglonis, ane burnestand.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iv [When] I to milk the ewes first tried my skill, To bear a leglen was nae toil to me.
c1750 J. Elliot Flowers of Forest (song) ii Ilk ane lifts her leglin, and hies her away.
1822 W. Scott Let. 10 Feb. (1934) VII. 60 Miss Edgeworth..carries her literary reputation as..easily as the milk maid in my country does the leglan.
1881 J. Sands Sketches Tranent 20 A leglen or milking pail of excellent small beer.
1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 184 Pail, [Banff, Fife, Stirling] Leglen, [Ayr, Kirkcudbright] Laiglen, [Lanark] Leglin.

Compounds

leglen-girth n. Obsolete = laggen-gird n. at laggin n. Compounds; only in to cast a leglen-girth: = to cast a laggen-gird at laggin n. Compounds.See note in etymology.
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1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. viii. 230 Ganging a wee bit gleed in her walk through the world; I mean in the way of..casting a leglen-girth, or the like.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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