| 单词 | plough light |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplough light plough light n. now historical (in East Anglia) a votive light kept burning in a church by or on behalf of the farmers of a parish (see quots. 1825 and 1941-2). ΚΠ 1490 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 123 To the Plowlyght of Sygate xijd. 1528 in Orig. Papers, Norfolk & Norwich Archaeol. Soc. (1897) 13 ii. 201 Item. of ye increse of a plowlyght. 1781 M. J. Armstrong Hist. & Antiq. Norfolk IX. Hundred of Tunstead 103 Here was the chapel of our Lady in the church, the guild of St Botolph, fifty holy lights, and three plough lights. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 73 Anciently, light called the Plough-light, was maintained..before images in some churches, and on Plough Monday they..went about with a plough..to get money to support the Plough-light. 1941–2 C. Hole Eng. Custom & Usage iii. 32 The money collected [on Plough Monday] was spent on drinking and feasting, but in pre-Reformation times a part of it went to pay for the Plough Light, a lamp kept burning in many churches through the year, and maintained by all the husbandmen of the parish. 2012 E. Duffy Saints, Sacrilege & Sedition 87 The maiden-lights..were regularly remembered by testators, like Alice Martyn who left 6d. to the plough-light and ‘to the daunsyng lights of the maydens to eche of them 3d.’ < as lemmas |
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