| 单词 | middlestead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiddlestead middlestead n. British regional the area of a barn containing the threshing floor (see quot. a1825). ΚΠ 1584 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 131 In the middestead 1 stand of Rye ixs. iiijd.] 1719 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 91 A Barn of 4 Golfe steads and one middle stead to be built upon the heath. 1795 Farming Jrnl. 7 Sept. in Norfolk Rec. Soc. (1995) LVIII. 67 Ten loads..plac'd into the south goafstead & middlestead. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Middlestead, the compartment of a barn which contains the threshing floor; generally in the middle of the building. 1948 A. Jobson This Suffolk xiii. 161 And then come the throshin'. One time thet used tew be done by owd fellas in the middlestead o' the barn, using them owd flails all day long. 1969 G. E. Evans Farm & Village viii. 82 Big double doors led to the central bay of the barn, the middlestead, where the threshing was later carried on. < as lemmas |
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