| 单词 | lot-mead |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslot-mead lot-mead n. now historical and rare = lot-meadow n. [Earlier currency is apparently implied by use in field names: compare Lotmede, Cumnor (1349; now Lot Mead), Lotemede, Earley (1461–83, now lost), Lotmede, Englefield (1543; now lost), all in Berkshire.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > meadow land > meadow > other meadows stank-meadowc1358 lot-mead1552 lot-meadow1605 saeter1795 shade1806 rodham1882 1552 in Drayton Papers (MS Christ Church Oxf. Arch.) In quodam parto ibidem vocato lotte meade subtus Merton. 1553 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) 17 117/2 For grasse in the loot mede yt belongythe to ye churche ijs. a1697 J. Aubrey Wiltshire (1862) 198 Here [i.e. at Wanborough] is a Lott-Mead celebrated yearly with great ceremony. 1753 Act exchanging Lands in Manor & Parish of Eastlech-Martin 4 All that Piece or Parcel of Meadow, or Pasture Ground, in the Lot Mead, containing Sixteen Acres. 1896 G. L. Gomme Village Community ix. 266 In England there are examples of the distribution by annual allotment of arable lands and of meadow lands, the latter well known by the name of lot meads. 1902 Home Counties Mag. 4 305 No tradition of such festivities in connection with the Newbury Lot Mead exists, only the name and the allotment survive. 1931 R. A. Firor Folkways in Thomas Hardy ii. 50 Aubrey tells us that lot-meads still existed in the England of his day. < as lemmas |
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