单词 | sweepage |
释义 | sweepagen. 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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