单词 | pigtaker |
释义 | † pigtakern. Obsolete. A supplier of pigs. Cf. taker n. 2b.Formerly an office in the Royal Household. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplying of meat > one who pigtaker1455 1455 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) *21 Th' office of the Catery..1 Grome Piggetaker. 1538 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 218 Allowance to be given..unto Thomas Playfoote, Yeoman-Pigtaker for every Neale, being fatt and good,..that he shall send into the Larder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1455 |
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