单词 | reeve roll |
释义 | > as lemmasreeve roll reeve roll n. ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 460 With spiritus intellectus they seke þe reues rolles [c1400 C text reeue-rolles]. 1922 D. Chadwick Social Life in Days Piers Plowman iii. 55 The reeve was responsible for the behaviour of labourers and the cultivation of the estate, and the ‘reeve-rolls’, or detailed accounts of the property, were kept by him or his clerks. 1996 R. B. McDonald in L. C. Lambdin & R. T. Lambdin Chaucer's Pilgrims (1999) xxvi. 293 It may be that the job of reeve was made profitable by what was not recorded in the reeve rolls. < as lemmas |
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