单词 | twinter |
释义 | twinteradj.n. Chiefly northern and Scottish. A. adj. Of two winters; two years old: said of cattle and sheep (also of colts). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > family unit > [adjective] > young > two years old twinter1537 two-yearling1577 two-yearing1600 two-year-old1601 1537 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 103 To every oon..of my kynde servauntes..oon twynter calf. 1540 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 94 ij twintter bolokes..one twyntter heffer. 1582 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 1 A twinter kowlt. 1620 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) II. 245 A twinter steere. 1638 Will E. Burton in Reliquary VIII. 221 One twinter bay filly with a whyte foote. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 38 After a ewe has been shorn three times she is called a twinter ewe, that is, a two-winter ewe. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Twinter, ‘a twinter stot’, an ox of two winters old. B. n. a. A two-year-old cow, ox, horse, or sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > of certain age twinter1404 thrinter1535 runt1638 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > foal > of specific age twinter1404 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by age > two years old twinter1404 hoggerel1530 two-shear1788 four-tooth1793 bident1881 1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 399 Item 14 twynterys. 1408 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1903) II. 16 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 932) LIII. 323 Unum twyntour. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. ii. 105 Five twinteris britnit he,..and tydy quyis. 1536 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 419 4 Trynters, 7 Twynters, 9 Stirks. 1567 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 204 One yonge colte beinge a twinter. 1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 341 xxiij twenters, stotts and whies. 1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Twinters, Cattle of two Winters old, so called in Bedford-shire. c1720 A. Ramsay Ram & Buck 22 When sleet Made twinters and hog-wedders bleet. 1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 Antiquities 149/1 Twinter, a calf two winters or two years old: Derbyshire. 1808 T. H. Horne Compl. Grazier (ed. 3) 97 The name of the female neat cattle is for the first year, cow~calf, then a..twinter. 1868 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 4 ii. 428 I turned 20 yearly calves and ‘twinters’—as two-year-old animals are locally termed—into a 6-acre field. a1898 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) 339 ‘Twinters’ and ‘th[r]inters’, sic like names for sheep. b. transferred. Applied to pasture for, or the right to pasture, a two-year-old sheep, in a common or jointly-held field. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights pannage1392 commonc1405 stint1437 agistmenta1450 intercommon1449 commonty1466 foggage1471 communitya1475 gist1493 commoning?a1509 arrentationc1540 wether gang1561 browsage1570 pasturage1572 feed1575 intercommoner1581 frankfold1609 broouage1610 fellow commoner1612 horsegate1619 frankfoldage1628 shack1629 tatha1641 retropannage1679 levancy and couchancya1691 commonance1701 stinter1701 horse-lease1721 stray1736 goose-gate1739 commonage1792 twinter1846 couchance1886 levance1886 sheep-stray1891 stintholder1894 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture > types of lamb's-lease1609 hog-fence1790 twinter1846 tussock land1881 1846 Award in High Court of Justice Chanc. Div., Coulston v. Harvey (1892) Four gaits, two twinters, in Bolton Highfield. 1892 High Court of Justice Chanc. Div. (1892) The Plaintiffs are entitled to 11 gaits 2 twinters and 2 claws or..22 a. 1 r. 35 p. And the Defendants to 2 gaits and 1 claw or..3 a. 2 r. 5 p. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1404 |
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