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单词 meltith
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meltithn.

Brit. /ˈmɛltɪθ/, U.S. /ˈmɛltɪθ/, Scottish English /ˈmɛltɪθ/, /ˈmɛltɪt/
Forms: pre-1700 mailltaith, pre-1700 mailteit, pre-1700 mailteth, pre-1700 mealtit, pre-1700 mealtite, pre-1700 meltat, pre-1700 melteithe, pre-1700 meltethe, pre-1700 meltetht, pre-1700 meltithe, pre-1700 1700s meltet, pre-1700 1700s–1800s melteth, pre-1700 1700s– meltit, pre-1700 1700s– meltith, 1700s mealtate, 1700s–1800s mealtith, 1800s meltaith, 1800s melteith.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Probably the reflex of a borrowing < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic máltíð : see mealtide n.). Eng. Dial. Dict. also records s.v. an isolated attestation in an unpublished glossary of the dialect of Alnwick, Northumberland.
Scottish.
1. = mealtide n. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun]
mealtideOE
mealtimelOE
meatsele?a1400
meat-timec1400
meat-while1435
meltitha1538
feeding-time1832
trencher-time1846
a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 20v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Melteth He had bot 3 coursis at the melteth and drank bot thris.
?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 7 Every man ane eg at the mailteth.
a1590 Rules of Health (Moray Arch., Darnaway Castle) 7 Forbering drink betuix meltethis and eftir supper.
1728 A. Ramsay Daft Bargain 12 [He] seem'd right yap His mealtith quickly up to gawp.
c1826 J. Hogg in Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 623 Tam lo'd his meltith and his clink.
1837 Laird of Logan 241 On the strength of our melteith..we sallied furth.
1880 Border Counties Mag. 1 93 I'll do it for a meltith o' meat.
1910 J. White Eppie Gray 7 An' though a humble meltith, Feth, a better coodna be.
2. = meal n.2 4a. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > yield at a milking
milkness1493
milk1501
milking1538
meltith1550
1550 in A. Maxwell Old Dundee (1891) 200 The cow gave ane chopin of milk every mailteit.
1633 Orkney Witch Trial in J. Maidment Misc. Abbotsford Club (1837) I. 153 Alse mony mealtitis off milk.
1839 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders V. 96/1 She, accordingly brought her evening's meltith, and skimmed it into his dish.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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