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单词 mowstead
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mowsteadn.

Brit. /ˈmaʊstɛd/, U.S. /ˈmaʊˌstɛd/
Forms: see mow n.1 and stead n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mow n.1, stead n.
Etymology: < mow n.1 + stead n.
Chiefly British regional.
A place, usually in a barn, where hay or corn is heaped up; spec. a bay or division between the threshing floor and the end of the barn. Also: a mass of hay or corn filling such a place.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > barn > parts of
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1531 Will T. Tubbe of E. Challow, Berks (Berks. Archdeaconry Wills, Berks. Rec. Office D/A1/1/153) So that shoe have my parlor & the over-chambre unto hir use wth a mowsted in the north ende of my barne.
1629 Inventory in H. Best Rural Econ. in Yorks. (1857) 110 A piece of a mewstead of wheate and maslin unthresht 6 l.
1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. xlii. 203 Furz is very profitable, when..laid at the Bottom of Corn and Hay Mowsteads.
1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman V. i. 2 Previous to the mowing wheat sheaves,..a mowstead should be prepared to lay them on.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §889 Along the sides of the threshing-floor are what are called mowsteads.
1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell 32 I'd rayther awn her purty mou' Than ha our mewsteads beggest mow.
1899 West Cumberland Times 25 Feb. 1/4Mowsteads of oats in Dutch Barn.
1937 W. Rose Village Carpenter vi. 67 Thus, I learned, when Enoch Slatter had been two days repairing the ‘mowsteads’ of a barn,..that the mowstead was the name of the dwarf vertical partition on each side of the central threshing floor, separating it from the bays.
1942 W. Rose Good Neighbours ii. 13 Sacks filled with corn and carefully tied, leaned against the mewstead.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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