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单词 sweepage
释义

sweepagen.

/ˈswiːpɪdʒ/
Forms: Also 1600s swepage.
Etymology: < sweep v. + -age suffix.
1. = sweeping n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > swept
swoftc1250
sweeping1480
sweepage1606
sweeping1641
1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 149 The veriest mennow among men, the salt and sweepage of the court, dare..contriue the death of the Prince of the court.
2.
a. spec. ‘The Crop of Hay got in a Meadow’ (Cowell Interpr., 1672, s.v. Swepage): cf. sweep n. 18; gen. what is mown.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > amount mowed
mowinga1576
strake1585
mowth1613
swape1614
sweepage1628
sweep1672
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. i. § i. 4 b He shall haue the vesture of the land, (that is) the corne, grasse, vnderwood, swepage, and the like.
1857 T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provinc. Eng. Swepage, the rough grass in a meadow which cattle will not eat, and which has to be mown or swept off.
1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 782/1 Sweepage (i.e. everything which falls to the sweep of the scythe).
b. dialect. (See quot. 1895.)
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right to cut grass, straw, etc.
helm-bote1437
greenhew1777
sweepage1895
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Sweepage, the right of cutting faggots, grass, &c., on a several or common allotment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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