单词 | ox-skin |
释义 | ox-skinn. 1. The skin of an ox, esp. as used for clothing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skin of bull, cow, or ox bull-hidec1275 oxhidec1350 bull-skinc1400 ox-skin?a1450 huddron1592 cowhide1640 cow-skin1780 steerhide1921 ?a1450 in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1817) I. 443 (MED) She must be charged with all the ox-skeynes that she selleth. 1689 R. Wild Benefice iv. 53 Marry'd Wives wear Fox-skins, And their Husbands Ox-skins. 1775 in A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada (1809) ii. ix. 256 Tents of a circular form, and composed of dressed ox-skins, stretched upon poles twelve feet in length. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 265 We were obliged to wrap ourselves..in ox-skins, which the traders call buffalo-robes. 1904 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 34 260 Chopped sugar cane, which is pounded..until it is reduced to a pulp. This is put into an oxskin which is laid over a hole in the ground so that it forms a concave receptacle. 1985 E. Kuzwayo Call me Woman ii. iv. 71 The girls appeared in..ox-skin skirts and were smeared with red ochre. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure wandalec1150 wista1200 landc1400 ridge1439 peck1442 scrophec1450 buttc1460 rig1485 mark1488 stick1531 farthingdeal1543 plough-gang1548 quarterland1563 ploughgate1565 last1576 wand1596 ox-skin1610 garbred1621 plank1631 nooka1634 buttal1635 farthinga1640 rick1641 familia1676 rhandir1688 setiera1690 worthine1701 fierding1768 whip-land1811 rai1933 1610 A. Hopton Baculum Geodæticum i. ii. 21 Foure akers (saith he) make a yard of land, fiue yards of land contain a hide..in Yorkeshire and other countries they call a hide an Oxe skinne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1450 |
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