单词 | nar leg |
释义 | > as lemmasnar leg a. In attributive use. That is the nearer of two things or people; (also, in Old English) †later in time (obsolete). In Old English also as n. In later use: left-hand; chiefly in nar horse, nar leg, nar side (cf. near adj. 3).The left hand side of a horse was the one beside which the ploughman walked, hence the closer side. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > closely nareOE nighOE neara1375 necessarya1382 germanea1449 native1488 near of kin1491 tender1508 near akinc1515 cousin1590 affine1614 own1671 tight-knit1832 the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > nearer nareOE the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > situated at the side > left winstereOE lefta1200 car1279 wrong?a1400 left hand1440 sinister1483 sinistral1534 left-hand side1581 nar1607 sinistrous1646 nigh1722 left-handed1757 larboard1781 leftward1791 sinistrine1792 left-sided1801 toward1866 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 11 On hire westhealfe is seo us nearre Ægyptus. eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. xii. 142 His þa neorran tide wæron wyrson þam ærran. OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. xxi. 31 Quis ex duobus fecit uoluntatem patris dicunt ei nouissimus : hweþer þære twegra worhte willan þæs fæderes cwædun hiæ se æftera uel nærra. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15691 Teȝȝ wærenn off hiss kinn & tær þurrh nerre breþre. c1300 St. Michael (Harl.) in T. Wright Pop. Treat. Sci. (1841) 133 (MED) The sonne..schyneth on the nerre half [of the moon], in thulke that ner him is. 1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 342/2 Paied..atte a rather and nerre day. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Propius, Gradu sanguinis propior Nerre kinne. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 5 The farre fore-foote, and the narre hinder foote. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 9 You shall linke together his [sc. the horse's] left legges, which we call his narre legges. 1659 Indenture, Goosnargh, Lancs. 2 closes..called narr or nearer croft and the further croft. 1736 Indenture, Sheffield The narr stubbed piece,..the far stubbed piece. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Nar-side, the lefthand side (of a horse or team). 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 108 A hos..brok' his nar fore-leg in two places. 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) (at cited word) The left-hand or nar horse walks on the land, when ploughing two abreast. 1951 Buchan Observer 20 Feb. 7/1 In the two horse plough, one horse trod the open furrow, the other, the land beast, on the other's left side. It was the ‘nar’ beast, the other the ‘aff’ beast. < as lemmas |
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