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单词 plough graith
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plough graithn.

Brit. /ˈplaʊ ˌɡreɪθ/, U.S. /ˈplaʊ ˌɡreɪθ/, Scottish English /ˈplʌʊ ˌɡreθ/
Forms: see plough n.1 and graith n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plough n.1, graith n.
Etymology: < plough n.1 + graith n. Compare earlier ploughgear n.
Scottish. Now rare.
The harness and equipment belonging to or used with a plough; = ploughgear n. Sc. National Dict. (1956) records the word as still in use in Dumfriesshire in 1955.
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a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. x. 78 All instrumentis of pleuch graith irnyt or stelit As cultyris sokkis and the somys gret.
1569 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. II. 62 Tuke away his plewch grayth.
1654 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1878) III. 388 Customes at thair portis..for ilk hors load of plough-graith.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 198 Stealers of Pleugh Graith..to be punished therefore, to the death, as Thieves.
1767 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Pleuch The plough would go as near to the dike of the feuers gardens as the plough-graith would allow them to gang.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 82 There was not a corner of the farm fit for any thing but to break plough-graith, and kill cattle.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 74 Locks and bars, plough-graith and harrow-teeth!
1892 Littell's Living Age 26 Nov. 520/2 Long after the middle of the century the plough-graith was made on the farm.
1920 in Sc. National Dict. (1956) at Graith v., n. My fadder's ploo graith wis the auld mear an' an owse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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