单词 | turf and twig |
释义 | > as lemmasturf and twig ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > [noun] > handing over of symbol of possession > object handed over > specific wandc1420 turf1585 verge1607 1585 in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1886) 239 Delyvered lyke possession..by a turffe cutt there. 1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 42 I tooke possession of the land, by turfe and twig. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xiv. 23) 123 The most High God, possessour of heaven and earth, who hath sent me with this bread and wine, as by turfe and twig, as by an earnest, and a little for the whole, to give thee possession of both. < as lemmas |
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