| 单词 | town-place |
| 释义 | > as lemmastown-place town-place n. English regional (Cornwall) a village, a hamlet, a farmyard. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun] > farm-offices > farmyard yardc1300 barnyard1354 closec1386 fold?a1505 barton1552 town-place1602 homestall1653 fold-stead1663 farmyard1686 fold-garth1788 fold-yard1800 farm court1807 1602 Surv. Treverbyn Courtney in N. W. Alcock & C. Carson W. Country Farms 1598–1764 (2007) vii. 101/1 Gregory Rowse holdeth there a messuage and tenement containing a faire hall, a buttry, a kitchin, a milkehowse,..a backside and a towneplace. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Town-place, a farm-yard. Cornw. 1867 All Year Round 16 Mar. 276/1 There dwelt, in scattered villages or town-places, as they are called to this day, the bold and hardy Keltic people. 1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 104 Town, Town-place, applied to the smallest hamlet, and even to a farm-yard. 1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xxxviii. 381 Behind the house was the town-place, a squelchy courtyard hemmed in by stables and full of casual domestic animals. 1986 A. L. Rowse Little Land of Cornwall 192 Around the town-place (i.e. farm-yard) at Trecarrell one can still see shaped and moulded stones. < as lemmas |
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