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单词 bruery
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brueryn.

Brit. /ˈbruːəri/, U.S. /ˈbru(ə)ri/
Forms: 1500s– bruery, 1800s bruary.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin brueria; French bruiere.
Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin brueria (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources (also as bruera); frequently from 13th cent. in continental sources) or its etymon (ii) Anglo-Norman and Middle French bruiere wasteland, heathland, heather (all late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman and Old French; French bruyère ) < post-classical Latin brugaria wasteland, heathland (9th cent.; also as brugeria , bruguera ) < brugga (1276), brogus (11th cent. in British glossarial sources), both in sense ‘wasteland, heathland’, brucus , kind of shrub (10th cent. in a glossarial source) ( < an unattested late variant of Gaulish uroic- (only attested in a place name) < the same the Celtic base as Welsh grug heather: see grig n.2) + classical Latin -aria -ery suffix.
historical in later use.
Esp. in East Anglia: heathland used for grazing.
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fritha1552
bruery1573
agistment1598
mountain1780
zuur-veldt1785
boosey pasture1794
rough grazing1802
outrun1870
1573 Royal Decree in E. Griffiths Managem. Two E. Norfolk Estates (PhD thesis, Univ. of East Anglia, 1987) 151 The use and feeding of the Comon pasture and bruery of the Queen's Maj. Towne of Cawston in Norfolk, hath bene for long in controversy.
1599 N. Bacon Order 23 Jan. in V. Morgan et al. Papers N. Bacon of Stiffkey (2000) (modernized text) IV. 73 Arbitration award made by Nathanial Bacon, esquire... John Grene is to surrender one rood of bruery..in Paston heath to John Taylor.
1614 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 25 Meadow pasture & bruery.
1653 in Jrnl. Chester & N. Wales Archæol. & Hist. Soc. (1918) 22 40 300 acres of land,..50 of heath and bruery, in Erthig, Wrexham, Sontley, and Marchwiel.
1731 T. Gurdon Hist. High Court Parl. I. 106 The Britons..had no Occasion to set apart Places for the Preservation of Game and Beasts of Venery, (their Bruery and uncultivated Lands, being such a Nursery and Shelter for them).
1773 in Minutes of Evid. before Comm. Privileges Petitions Astley & Le Strange (1840) 302 A piece of bruery upon Attlebridge Heath containing eighty acres.
1805 F. Blomefield Ess. towards Topogr. Hist. County of Norfolk II. xvi. 77 Other revenues, containing in the whole..260 acres of land, and 604 acres of pasture, and bruery, with liberty of 4 fold-courses.
1841 Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica VII. xxiv. 294 Anciently the lands in this parish consisted principally of heath and bruery, or sheepwalks.
1918 C. M. Hoare Hist. E. Anglian Soke 373 Various lands..held by his late father including twenty-three messuages, five hundred and thirty-four acres of land bruery and marsh, in Paston, Edingthorp and Bacton.
2008 D. Butcher Lowestoft, 1550–1750 ix. 202 Bruery was heathland, but of a managed nature. It was marked out in strips, or fenced off into enclosures, and used for rough grazing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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