单词 | talwood |
释义 | talwoodn. Obsolete exc. Historical. Wood for fuel, cut up usually to a prescribed size: cf. talshide n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > cut to a certain size wood-tale1235 tosard1336 talwood1350 staff-shide1411 billetc1440 talshide1444 cord-wood1638 1268– in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1866) (modernized text) I. 393 et seq. Tallwood.] 1350 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 254 Talwode. 1373 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 369 Taleghwode. 1424 Will of Richard Stawell (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/3) f. 23 Centum de talwode. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 227 Ml tallowood occupyed & spent abought hetyng of pitche Talowe Tarre & Rosyn. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxiiij v/2 (heading) The ordinaunce for the assise of talewod and belet in the cyte of london. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 279/2 Tallwodde pacte wodde to make byllettes of, taillee. 1552–3 Act 7 Edw. VI c. 7 All talwoode, billet, fagot and coles..shall kepe thassises hereafter expressed. [A statement of sizes and prices follows.] 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 9 Pyle tallwood and billet, stacke all that hath band. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 68 Fuel contains Billets, Cordwood, Faggots, Talwood, and Coals. 1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. III. iv. 101 It was the duty of the grooms of the chamber to procure a regular supply of tallwood and fuel for the fire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1350 |
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