英语词汇“on the rounds”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

27. In plural. With the. The procedure established under the Poor Law by which unemployed agricultural labourers were given temporary work by a number of farmers in turn. Chiefly in on the rounds, (also) to go the rounds. Cf. roundsman n. 1. Now historical.

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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > type or spell of work or payment

plough-tail?1523

threaving1768

rounds1795

tut1800

yoking1812

bush-work1830

stoop labour1943

1795 F. M. Eden State of Poor II. 29 Most labourers are, (as it is termed,) on the Rounds; that is, they go to work from one house to another round the parish.

1813 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. Bedford. 608 (E.D.D.) The increase of population has caused a deficiency of employment, which is so remarkable in some seasons, that a great proportion of the labourers ‘go the rounds’.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 183 Rounds-Men, labouring poor, who are taken into employment by the farmers in rotation; when they are said to be ‘on the rounds’.

1893 M. H. A. Stapleton Three Oxfordshire Parishes 167 Efforts were made to keep the men off the rates by the system of going the ‘Rounds’, that is to say, a man out of work was kept in turn by the farmers and passed on from one to another.

1934 E. H. Hampson Treatm. Poverty in Cambridgeshire, 1595–1834 163 The Industrial School and the workhouse, and from 1795 onwards the gravel pit and the ‘rounds’, took the place of apprenticeship for many children.

2004 K. Morgan Birth Industr. Brit. vi. 63 In some parishes the ‘roundsman’ system was used, whereby unemployed workers were sent on the rounds in search of work.

单词	on the rounds
释义	> as lemmas on the rounds 27. In plural. With the. The procedure established under the Poor Law by which unemployed agricultural labourers were given temporary work by a number of farmers in turn. Chiefly in on the rounds, (also) to go the rounds. Cf. roundsman n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > type or spell of work or payment plough-tail?1523 threaving1768 rounds1795 tut1800 yoking1812 bush-work1830 stoop labour1943 1795 F. M. Eden State of Poor II. 29 Most labourers are, (as it is termed,) on the Rounds; that is, they go to work from one house to another round the parish. 1813 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. Bedford. 608 (E.D.D.) The increase of population has caused a deficiency of employment, which is so remarkable in some seasons, that a great proportion of the labourers ‘go the rounds’. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 183 Rounds-Men, labouring poor, who are taken into employment by the farmers in rotation; when they are said to be ‘on the rounds’. 1893 M. H. A. Stapleton Three Oxfordshire Parishes 167 Efforts were made to keep the men off the rates by the system of going the ‘Rounds’, that is to say, a man out of work was kept in turn by the farmers and passed on from one to another. 1934 E. H. Hampson Treatm. Poverty in Cambridgeshire, 1595–1834 163 The Industrial School and the workhouse, and from 1795 onwards the gravel pit and the ‘rounds’, took the place of apprenticeship for many children. 2004 K. Morgan Birth Industr. Brit. vi. 63 In some parishes the ‘roundsman’ system was used, whereby unemployed workers were sent on the rounds in search of work. extracted from roundn.¹ < as lemmas
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