单词 | mistal |
释义 | mistaln. English regional (northern). A stable or shed for cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle house byrea800 shipponc900 neat-house1440 oxhousea1475 fee-house1483 cow-house1530 neatery1647 cow-stable1648 mistal1673 hemel1717 bull-house1808 barn-cellar1842 tie-up1851 cow-shippon1859 bullock-shed1865 cow-shed1886 1673 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 29 He..saith that..he sawe the said Mary Sikes riding upon the backe of one of his cowes. And he endeavouring to strike att her stumbled and soe the said Mary flewe out of his mistall window. 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 425 Mystall, mewstall for cattle, oxen, and cows. 1808 T. H. Horne Compl. Grazier (ed. 3) 68 Ox-stalls, or Feeding Houses..are usually denominated [in Lincolnshire] mistles. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Missel, a cow house. Yorksh. 1865 W. S. Banks List Provinc. Words Wakefield 47 Mistle, a cowhouse. 1884 Leeds Mercury 3 June 2 Good Mistal, for 8 beasts, with Hay Chamber. 1914 M. Sinclair Three Sisters xix. 82 His big voice..came booming from the mistal at the back. 1939 M. Whitaker And so did I iii. 36 All the barns and cowsheds—laithes and mistals, we call them—are built of the old stone. 1972 J. Wainwright Night is Time to Die 7 The cows were waiting in the mistal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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