marledadj.1
/mɑːld/, U.S. /mɑrld/ Now historical.
Of land or soil: manured or improved with marl.The form cited in quot. c1265 is a lost field name; the place name attested in quot. 1296 survives as Marland Bridge, East Sussex.
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dungedOE
marledc1265
mucked1290
chavedc1420
dungyc1450
manured1551
fatted1552
folded1579
chalked1598
battled1600
seasoned1604
limed1707
sanded1707
fattened1725
sooted1776
wared1795
littery1805
plastered1819
nitred1822
gypsumed1841
nitrated1841
sewaged1861
sewage-irrigated1867
c1265 in J. E. B. Gover Place-names Hampshire (typescript) (1961) 238 Le Marledefelde.
1296 in A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton Place-names Sussex (1930) II. 437 (MED) Marledelonde.
a1500 Promptorium Parvulorum (King's Cambr.) 327 Marlyd, as lond, cretatus.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 32 They let and set such Marled grounds, vnder twenty yeeres at an incredible rate of monies in hand.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 78 When you design to lay down marled Land..dung it well.
1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer: Pt. 2 85 All sort of pease love limed or marled Land.
1979 D. Church & E. S. Gowers Across Low Meadow (BNC) 28 The estates at Halling..contained 717 acres of arable land, that not being marled was valued at fourpence an acre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
marledadj.2
/mɑːld/, U.S. /mɑrld/, Scottish English /marld/α. Scottish pre-1700 1800s merlit, 1800s merilit, 1800s– merled, 1900s– merlt.
β. 1600s–1700s (1800s– English regional, Irish English (northern)Scottish) marled; also Scottish pre-1700 marlit, pre-1700 marllit, pre-1700 marrillit, pre-1700 1900s– marld, pre-1700 1900s– marlet, pre-1700 1900s– marlt, 1700s marl'd, 1900s– maarelt (Shetland), 1900s– mareld (Shetland).
γ. Scottish 1800s mirlet, 1800s– mirled, 1800s– mirlit, 1900s– murled (Orkney); Irish English (northern) 1900s– mirled.
Chiefly Scottish.
Marbled, mottled, spotted; variegated, chequered, or streaked; esp. made from (yarn containing) threads of different colours twisted together (cf. marl n.5).
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marled1502
gangean1623
mottle1676
mottled1676
scovy1777
mottledy1929
1502 in E. Beveridge Burgh Rec. Dunfermline (1917) 123 Ane merlit bed, ane kyrtill.
1546–7 Acta Dominorum Concilii et Sessionis XXIII. f. 151 Twa marlit couerlettis for beddis.
?1594 J. Monipennie Cert. Matters sig. G4 They delight in marled cloathes, speciallie, that haue long strypes of sondrie colours.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 216 Agats for Hafts of Knives, white and well marled are good.
1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 58 Marled Salmon,..being lesser then the ordinary Salmon, and full of strong Large Scales.
1793 Ann. Agric. 20 266 The fine eating meat being that which is marled flesh and spread well.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 327 The marled plaid ye kindly spare.
1816 J. Hogg Poetic Mirror 189 Hir [sc. a cat's] culoris war the merilit heuis That dappil the krene-berrye.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 568 The merled neck and smooth breast of the Maivis.
1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold i Its pale yellow marled sheepskin binding.
1885 Times 4 June 10/6 Exhibition of Collies... A curiously marked blue mirled and white specimen.
1905 J. Watson Dog Bk. v. xxiii. 376 Occasionally there are merled, or mirled, dogs... These are of various mixed colours, such as gray-blue or roan with darker blotches, or a reddish shade with brown and black blotches.
1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 13/5 (advt.) In marled colours of beige, navy/white, black/maize, etc.
1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. at Marlet Sees du da legs o 'er—fair marlet wi sittin beekin hersel afore da fire.
1989 W. McIlvanney Walking Wounded 64 There was the matching set of marled fountain-pen and propelling pencil which his wife had given him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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