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单词 swan-yard
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swan-yard
C3. with reference to the keeping of swans and swan-upping, as swan-book, swan-hook, swan-house, swan-keeper, swan laws, swan-master, swan-pit, swan-rights, swan-warden, swan-yard.
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1524 in Archaeologia (1812) 16 156 That there shall no Swannerd keep, or carry any swan book, but the King's Swannerd.
c1560 in Proc. Archæol. Inst., Lincoln (1850) 305 It is lawful for every owner, swanmaister, or swanheard, to pull up, or cut downe ye birdnet.
c1560 in Proc. Archæol. Inst., Lincoln (1850) 306 If any person..be found carrijng any swanhooke, and the same person being no swanheard [etc.].
c1560 in Proc. Archæol. Inst., Lincoln (1850) 306 They shall pay a land bird to the king, and be obedient to all swan lawes.
1600–1 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 594 Pro mending the Swanhouse walles iiijd.
1793 in Blackwood's Mag. Dec. (1888) 862/1 [A minute in the books of the Hospital Trust [of St. Helen's, Norwich] says that a new] swan-yard [was constructed in 1793].
1812 R. Surtees in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1857) I. 85 Swan-oats are regularly paid by the adjacent properties to the lessee of the old swan-house on the borders of the morass.
1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds III. 129 The principal governing officers of the [Vintners'] company for the time being are, a Master and three Wardens, the junior Warden of the year being called the Swan Warden.
1848 Bromehead in Proc. Archæol. Inst., Lincoln (1850) 301 (note) The swanhook, attached to a long pole, by means of which the bird might readily be captured by the neck, is frequently introduced as a symbol amongst the varied devices composing the swanmarks in the MS.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxix. 202 The swan-pit, at the back of the Old Man's Hospital, St. Helen's, Norwich. This pit is an oblong pool or tank,..with perpendicular sides... Here they [sc. cygnets] are fattened for the table, or reared for transmission to their future homes.
1888 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 861/2 There are several swan-pits belonging to the various owners of swan-rights on the Norwich rivers.
1888 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 862/1 From 80 to 100 cygnets may be seen..undergoing the process of fattening in the swan-pit.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Aug. 2/1 Fourteen years ago the R.S.P.C.A. prosecuted the swan-masters.
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