| 单词 | statute hiring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstatute hiring 2. local. (See quot. 1825.) (Also statute hiring.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Hiring, a fair or market at which country servants are hired. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 668 The ‘hirings’ for farmers' servants half yearly at Whitsuntide and Martinmas. 1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water v A couple of female farm servants had come in to the spring ‘hiring’. statute hiring statute hiring n. British (now historical) = statute fair n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1793 J. Ritson Note on As you like It Epil., in I. Reed Johnson & Steevens's Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) VI. 172 The practice is still observed in Warwickshire and the adjoining counties, at statute-hirings, wakes, &c. by people who sell ale at no other time. 1878 J. H. Gray China I. x. 240 For these servants there are what in England are termed statute hirings. 2010 Filey (Nexis) 19 Apr. An annual custom was to hold ‘Statute Hirings’ on the first Tuesday after Martinmas Day. < as lemmas |
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