| 单词 | reap day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreap day reap day n. now historical a day on which feudal tenants (or their servants) were obliged to perform harvest work for the lord of the manor; = bedrip n., magna precaria n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service bedrip1226 needbedripc1284 sorren1289 penny-eartha1300 corvée1340 plough-boon1388 timber-lodec1400 carriage1423 sickle-boon1438 foreign servicea1475 average1489 castle-guard1576 boonage1610 reaping day1657 reap day1663 archery1691 boon-work1883 bene-rip- 1663 F. Philipps Antiq. Præ-emption & Pourveyance for King iii. 145 By summons of the Bayliffe upon a Generall Reap day or Magna precaria,..the Tenants as well free as Copiholders should yearly amongst them doe 199 dayes work for the Lord within the Manor. 1795 D. Lysons Environs London II. 188 (note) [Tenants] sent either all their labourers, or a part of them upon fixed days, called ‘dies precariæ’; i.e. bedryp, or reap-days. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 397/1 Magna precaria, a great or general reap-day. 1897 W. Phillimore & W. H. Whitear Hist. Coll. relating to Chiswick 143 These men Gilbert and Brightnoth find for each dry reap day one man and to the reap days with ale they send two men. 1997 S. King Wizard & Glass iii. ii. 362 The whispering was a habit she'd picked up only recently, as Reap Day neared. < as lemmas |
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