单词 | plough-beast |
释义 | > as lemmasplough-beast plough-beast n. ΘΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > work animals > draught animal field beasta1382 plough-beast1454 ploughware1465 plough1505 worker1617 wheeler1813 poler1860 1454 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 120 (MED) He and his men..toke all the plow-bestes and other bestes. a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 52 (MED) Geve your ploughe beestes sufficyaunt mete for to susteyne with þe labur. 1799 J. Mathews Remarks Scarcity Cattle 154 The removed farmers, who used to rear plough beasts on each [farm]. 1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. (1963) ix. 346 The ownership of plough-beasts. 2000 Hist. Today (Nexis) 1 May 39 Peasants ate little dairy produce since they sold most of their eggs, cheese and butter in local markets to earn vital cash to buy cooking pots and other metal utensils, harnesses for the plough-beasts, and salt. < as lemmas |
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