单词 | by house-row |
释义 | > as lemmasby (also in) house-row A row, series, or street of houses. In early use often in †by (also in) house-row: according to the order or succession of houses; house by house (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase] > from one place to another in succession > specific by (also in) house-rowc1586 by town-row1886 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [adverb] > house by house by (also in) house-rowc1586 by town-row1886 c1586 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 255 The parishe by howserowe to fynde every sundaye in the yeare j. penye white lofe for holye bread. 1676 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1888) VI. 264 That due watch and ward be kept by persons fit and of able body by house-row. 1677 J. Armstrong Secret & Family Prayers 73 To begin in the Higher End..and so to go by House-rows,..taking a convenient number of Families at a time. 1786 T. Gilbert Plan Police (new ed.) 31 As it [sc. the position of overseer] is an Office of great Burden, it generally goes by House-row, in Rotation through the Parish. a1791 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 320 Take a regular catalogue of your societies, as they live in house-row. 1848 Metrop. Mag. 52 215 We can't take Lon'on by house-rows, and knock at every door i'the place, to know whether she lives there or not. 1865 Harper's New Monthly Mag. May 739/1 The house rows..often look as if they had been sawed off to make way for the street. 1901 B. S. Rowntree Poverty i. 3 They suffered from skin diseases, and, generally speaking, were short-lived, dying by house-rows almost when any epidemic broke out. 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 June c15/1 This is the way dozens of house rows have been designed in the past. < as lemmas |
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