单词 | booly |
释义 | † boolyn. Obsolete. A temporary fold or enclosure used by the Irish who wandered about with their herds in summer; a company of people and their cattle thus wandering about. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > fold or pen folda700 lockeOE pen1227 foldingc1440 pend1542 cub1548 hull1570 corral1582 boolya1599 ree1674 crew1681 reeve1720 stell1766 pound1779 kraal1796 fank1812 poundage1866 forcing-yard1890 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 35 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) All the Tartarians and..Scythians..live in heards..being the very same, that the Irish boolies are, driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding onely on their milke and white meates. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 25 In the North of Ireland, they do with much conuenience, by kreating [= creaghting] & shifting their Boolies from seed-fur til haruest bee inned, both depasture & soile their grounds. 1846 W. H. Maxwell Capt. Blake I. vii The tenants of the lonely bouillie. (Bouillies, are summer bivouacs, used by shepherds when depasturing their flocks in the mountains.) DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > use of temporary fold boolinga1599 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 35 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) By this custome of Boolying, there grow in the meane time many great enormityes unto that Common-wealth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1599 |
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