单词 | bastle house |
释义 | bastle housen. A fortified farmhouse of a type chiefly found in northern England close to the Scottish border, typically built in the 16th or early 17th cent. as a defence against raiders, and having a vaulted ground floor used for storage and livestock, the main living area being on the upper floor and reached by means of an external staircase or ladder. Cf. peel n.2 4, peel house n. (b) at peel n.2 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > tower or fortified house bastide1523 bastle house1542 broch1654 round tower1790 bastle1813 1542 in J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. III (1828) II. 215 At Carre Cottes in the said Fylton more is an other bastell house. 1776 G. Ridpath & P. Ridpath Border-Hist. Eng. & Scotl. vii. 550 (note) The whole number of towns, towers..parish-churches, bastel-houses, seized, destroyed, and burnt, in all the border country, was an hundred and ninety-two. 1849 Mem. Kirkaldy Gr. xxi. 242 The Potterrow Port, an arch between two bastel houses. 1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Dec. 13/3 The two hundred or so bastle houses which survive in whole or in part. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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