| 单词 | acremanland |
| 释义 | > as lemmasacremanland acremanland n. now historical a holding or tenement of arable land, varying in extent according to locality (usually about 10 acres); cf. acre-land n. at acre n. Compounds 1.Originally denoting a plot of land reserved for the leader of the plough team. ΚΠ c1300 in P. Vinogradoff Villainage in Eng. (1892) 147 Dimidias virgatas, que vocantur Akermannelondes, quorum W. L. tenet ½ virgatam pro qua ibit ad carucam Abbatis. 1783 Collections towards Parochial Hist. of Berks. in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 16. 20 The vicarage is endowed with a yard land, about twenty-five acres of glebe, and some small portions of great tythes in certain lands called Akerman or Acreman lands (in a terrier of the vicarage taken A.D. 1635). 1892 P. G. Vinogradoff Villainage in Eng. i. 257 A plot reserved for the leader of the plough-team, the akerman, was naturally called akermanland. 1975 E. Crittall Victoria Hist. County of Wilts. X. 26/2 There were also six ‘acremanlands’ comprising on average some 10 a. of arable. < as lemmas |
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