单词 | rood land |
释义 | rood landn. Now historical. A plot of land of one rood (rood n. 7) in extent.In Ireland: spec. a portion of land let under the conacre system (cf. quarterland n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > plot of specific size rood landa1500 1327 in W. Hudson Three Earliest Subsidies Sussex (1910) 117 (MED) Johne ate Roddelond. c1402 in J. H. Lumby Cal. Norris Deeds Lancs. (1939) 40 1 ac. 1 rodelande in le Merefeld, 1 1/2 ac. in the same fd., I ac. 1 rodelonde in the same fd. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 556 The forsaid Rode lond. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 737/21 Hec virgata, a rodlande. c1510 Reg. Burscough (P.R.O.) lf. 4 On the Northe Syde of the sayd chapelle is viij acres and iij Rode londes and viij falle. 1594 in Antiquary 32 118 Rent of a rode land, xvs. 1635 MS. Indenture (Lancs.) A parcel of land containing one roodland of land. 1739 C. Leadbetter Royal Gauger i. ii. 6 40 Perches makes one Rood-land, 4 Rood-lands one Acre. 1768 R. Rouse Coll. Charities & Donations 30 One three rood land on the same furlong. 1837 J. Binns Miseries & Beauties of Ireland I. iii. 53 Conacre, here called ‘rood land’, is a small portion prepared by ploughing and manuring, and afterwards let by the farmer to a labourer, at a rent of £8 the Irish acre. 1862 M. A. Lower Parochial Hist. Chiddingly 6 There was another rood-land situated in the Rape of Hastings, which had been uninterruptedly valued at twenty shillings. 1898 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 5 Mar. 4/9 Nor could the price given for..the conacreing of rood land in the neighbourhood of towns and villages be any criterion whatever of the annual value of such holdings. 1957 R. D. Edwards Great Famine 444 The meaning of the word ‘conacre’ has never been satisfactorily explained. The practice had other names—‘rood land’ in Ulster, ‘quarter ground’ in Limerick. 1990 R. Hoyle in J. Chartres & D. Hey Eng. Rural Society iv. 91 The duchy occasionally took a greater fine for the confirmation of copies of roodland, demesnes, or former waste land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1327 |
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