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单词 westmony
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Westmonyn.

Forms: 1600s–1700s Westmony, 1700s Westmoney.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Westmony.
Etymology: < Westmony, the former English name of the Westman Islands (Icelandic Vestmannaeyjar, Danish Vestmanøer).For use of Westmony, Westmoney, †Westmonie as a place name (now only in historical contexts) in English compare:1584 R. Norman tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers f. 72v From Marchant Foreland to Westmonie, the course is west and by north 12. leagues, and to the north-westwards of Westmonie is a Baie.1695 R. Coke Refl. upon East-Indy & Royal African Companies 17 Have not the French and Dutch upon the matter got from us all the Fisheries upon the Coasts of England and Scotland, to Iseland, Westmony, Greenland, and the Newfoundland?1845 Encycl. Metrop. XIX. 425/2 The Port of Westmony..was reserved for the especial supply of the Danish Court.1929 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 1 20 In 1595 the ship of Raymond King was seized when fishing at the island of Westmony near Iceland.Erroneously printed Westinary in R. Griffiths Descr. Thames (1758) 260.
Obsolete.
attributive. Designating matters relating to the Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar), a small archipelago off the south-western coast of Iceland.
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Westmony1663
1663 Act 15 Chas. II c. 7 §13 For the Encouragement of the Herring & North-Sea, Island [= Iceland], & Westmony Fisheries.
1713 F. Cawood Ess. establishing & improving Fishery 41 We must throw up all our East and West India, our Turky, and all that is left of our Russia and other Trade, as we have already done by our Island Westmony and Greenland Trades.
1792 J. Reeves Hist. Law Shipping & Navigation ii. v. 225 Two years after another provision was made, for the purpose principally of encouraging the herring, and North Sea, Island and Westmony fisheries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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