单词 | bruery |
释义 | brueryn. historical in later use. Esp. in East Anglia: heathland used for grazing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > other types of pasture 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). < n.1573 |
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