单词 | rood breadth |
释义 | > as lemmasrood breadth rood breadth n. now historical and rare the width of a rood. ΚΠ 1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. i. 23 The oak majestical, whose aged boughs Darken a rood breadth. 1870 Farmer's Mag. June 488/1 There is only a rood breadth between me and Mr. Weatherspoon, and there they have them dying continually. 1903 W. H. Browne in Taill of Rauf Coilyear Notes 133 Rude braid, rood-breadth. 1989 Trans. Scarborough Archaeol. & Hist. Soc. No. 27. 36/2 It appears that ‘narrow land’, ‘half land’, and ‘rood breadth’ had the same meaning and were each about 5 yards wide. < as lemmas |
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