| 单词 | thewpenny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthewpenny Name of an instrument or apparatus of punishment ordained, instead of the pillory, for women; often identified with the cucking-stool n. Also in combination thewpenny (cf. burghal-penny n.).The medieval Latin equivalent was collistrigium, i.e. an iron collar compressing and confining the neck. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > stool or ducking-stool cuck-stool1200 thewc1273 cucking-stoolc1308 stoolc1308 pining-stoolc1400 scolding stool1474 tumbrila1513 cuckle-stool1592 ducking-stool1597 gum-stool1623 trebucheta1641 gumble-stool1653 gogingstool1679 ducking tumbrel1688 c1273 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 302/2 (Bassetlaw, Notts) Tempore domini Walteri de Gray [a 1256]..levatum fuit le theu primo in villis ejusdem Archiepiscopi..jam xxx annis elapsis. 1287 Plac. de Quo Warranto (1818) 11/1 Ibi habet tantummodo tumberellum et thewe. 1287 Plac. de Quo Warranto (1818) 11/2 Cum soca et saka..boruhapeny et theupeny. 1290–1 Ipswich Domesday lxxiv, in Blk. Bk. Admir. (Rolls) II. 164 Femmes qe sunt communs tenceresses..seyent eles chastiez par la juyse qe [est] apele le theu. 1364 Lett.-Bk. G. London lf. 137 Consideratum fuit..quod præfata Alicia subhiat judicium cullistr' pro mulieribus inde ordinat' vocata la Thewe [tr. Riley Mem. (1868) 319 That the said Alice should undergo the punishment of the pillory for women ordained, called the thewe.] 1391 Lett.-Bk. H. London lf. 258 b Quod eadem Isabella ponatur super le Thewe pro mulieribus ordinat'..ibidem moratura per unam horam diei [tr. p. 526, that she should be put upon the thewe, for women ordained, for one hour of the day]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 490/2 Thewe, or pylory, collistrigium. c1450 Surtees Misc. (1888) 60 Ye sayd Burgese schall..ordan a pelory and a thew, lawfull and strang. 1483 Cath. Angl. 382/2 A Thewe, tripotheum (A. Collistrigium, et cetera). 15.. in MS. Harl. 2115 lf. 77 Punire per iudicium de Thewe, hoc est ponere eas super Scabellum vocatum Cokestolle. 1533 Surtees Misc. (1888) 34 She shalnot chyde ne flyte,..oppen ridyng of the jebit, or thew, aboute the towne. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xix. i. 310 It is not lawfull for anie subiect..to..set vp furels, tumbrell, thew, or pillorie. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Thew, an old Word for a Cucking Stool. < as lemmas |
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