单词 | maund basket |
释义 | > as lemmasmaund basket a. A basket made of wicker or other woven material, or (occasionally) of wooden slats, with a handle or handles. Also maund basket.In various districts applied spec. to particular kinds of baskets. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > with handles maundeOE eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 35/1 Coffinus, mand. eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 105 Coffinos, manda. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xvi. 10 Quot sportas sumsistis : hu monig monda onfengige. 1410 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 48 De iij paribus del cardes cum le weghbalk et maundes pro lina. 1459 Inventory Fastolf's Wardrobe in Paston Lett. (1904) III. 180 Item, ij maundys. ?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 330 Mawnd, skype, sportula. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxv. 152 Men may lete doune fro the walles certayn persones in grete maundes by nyght. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xi. 30 Like as a partrich in a maunde, so is the hert of the proude. 1546 Kirton-in-Lindsey Ch. Acc. in Antiquary (1888) Dec. 20 A mand for hully bred. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 147 This forme maye be called maundforme, or bell forme, bicause it is like a maunde basket, or a bell. 1604 N. F. Fruiterers Secrets 13 There must be prouided great baskets, or (as some call them) Maunds, of quarters or halfe quarters. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K2 A thousand fauours from a maund she drew, Of amber christall and of bedded Iet. 1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 75 For pots and liuer Mands—li.000 18s. 0d. 1681 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) 328 A Maund, a Basket, or rather a hand-basket with two lids to carry on ones Arm. 1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 16 Great Maands, or Baskets, filled with Chalk. 1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 443 We'll hide the Couper behind the door & cover him under a mawn, O. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 283 Wechts or maunds for taking up corn are made either of wood or of skin, attached to a rim of wood. 1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan I. ii. xiv. 284 After carrying into the kitchen the mighty maun. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. ix. 148 Men were bringing fruit..in mawn-baskets. 1904 W. Wilson Folk Lore Upper Nithsdale 92 I hae aye made a gude wheen potato mawns. 1969 G. E. Evans Farm & Village viii. 91 The short handled wooden hoe for filling the corn into the maunds or wooden containers for taking it up from the floor. 1984 P. Legg Cidermaking in Somerset 7 (caption) A ‘maund’ or ‘three peck’ basket, standing about 13 inches high. < as lemmas |
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