单词 | rice-hedge |
释义 | > as lemmasrice-hedge C1. General attributive, as rice-bush, rice-hedge, rice-way, rice-well, rice-wood, etc. British regional in later use. ΚΠ OE Bounds (Sawyer 145) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1885) I. 316 Þurh yfemestan hangran. On hris weg. Of hris wege adune to þære dene. c1200 ( Bounds (Sawyer 1553) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1848) VI. 218 Of ðere cealdanwyllan on ðone þyrlan stan. Of ðam stone in hriswyllan lace. Of hriswyllan lace on Wulfilde wyllan. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 55 Than..rakit [they] hame to ther rest throw the rise blwmys. 1602 Extremities Vrging Sir F. Veare to Anti-parle 15 There remaineth small hope for him, if the States faile not to send Rise-wood to repaire therewith in the night what hee spoyleth in the day. 1627 in Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1900) 2nd Ser. II. 128 Rise worke stules. ?1643 Particular Relation Action before Cyrencester 4 The streets were barricadoed up with..waggons of bavins or Rise bushes. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. at Rise Rise-wood, small wood cut for hedging. 1881 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 4 53/2 When a fence is made of stakes with dead thorns twined in, it is called a ‘rice-hedge’. 1902 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 20 358 Mr. M. Walton Brown..said that ‘rice-wood’ was applied to the branches of trees, used in making road-ways across boggy ground in the Cleveland district. < as lemmas |
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