单词 | rhandir |
释义 | rhandirn. Chiefly historical. An allotted portion or share of (esp. inherited) land. Hence: a measure of land, of a size varying from 16 to 312 acres under different legal codes. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure wandalec1150 wista1200 landc1400 ridge1439 peck1442 scrophec1450 buttc1460 rig1485 mark1488 stick1531 farthingdeal1543 plough-gang1548 quarterland1563 ploughgate1565 last1576 wand1596 ox-skin1610 garbred1621 plank1631 nooka1634 buttal1635 farthinga1640 rick1641 familia1676 rhandir1688 setiera1690 worthine1701 fierding1768 whip-land1811 rai1933 1688 T. Jones Y Gymraeg yn ei Disgleirdeb: Dict. Welsh & Eng. Rhandir, a Lot or Hereditary part. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata 115 Townships, which were also divided towards the latter end of the British Government, into about Five Thousand Tenures, i.e. Gavels, Wele's and Rhandirs. 1729 J. Lewis & H. Thomas Hist. Great-Brit. xiii. 40 Ther are four of thes Erwes in a Tydyn, (by Dyfynwal's Lawes) foure Tythyns in every Randir. 1807 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons (ed. 2) I. v. iii. 327 Every rhandir was composed of sixteen acres. 1841 A. Owen tr. Anc. Laws & Inst. Wales I. 537 There are to be three hundred and twelve erws in the lawful randir. a1884 H. Lewis Anc. Laws Wales (1889) v. 130 In time the settled families or kindreds monopolized the common lands, each having its allotted rhandir or rhandirs. 1900 W. Gilbey Ponies, Past & Present 28 The borrower had to pay four pence for mounting, and four pence for each rhandir (supposed to be a league) he rode the horse. 1961 Geografiska Annaler 43 183/1 The rhandir came to have imposed on it what may appear..to have been a rather confused pattern of human settlement. 1993 T. M. Charles-Edwards Early Irish & Welsh Kinship ix. 380 The rhandir could in theory be a shareland in the sense of an area which should come to a man, through sharing and patrimony, if he was to enjoy a certain status. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1688 |
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