| 释义 |
selion Hist. and local.|ˈsɛlɪən|
Forms: 5 sellion, seylon, 6 selyon, 7 selione, sillyon, 4– selion.
[ad. Anglo-L. seliōn-em, seilōn-em, AF. seilon = OF. seillon, mod.F. sillon furrow.]
1. A portion of land of indeterminate area comprising a ridge or narrow strip lying between two furrows formed in dividing an open field, a ‘narrow-land’.
c1450Godstow Reg. 215, xx. seylons & j. of hys arable londe. c1460Oseney Reg. 68, ij. sellions or buttes of lond to a wey to be made at northoseney. 1542Conveyance in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 398 Foure selyons of lande arrable conteynyng two acres. 1628Coke On Litt. 5 b, By the grant of a selion of land, a ridge of land which containeth no certainty, for some be greater and some lesser, doth pass. 1669Will of R. Mayor in Blk. Bk. Dioc. Lichf. I. 87 Four lands or rudges or sillyons of arrable land. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 368 A croft..containing five selions or ridges of land. 1839Stonehouse Isle of Axholme 302 Two selions of land containing one acre, lying in a furlong called Foxholes. 1894Times 19 May 7/3 The land is for the most part in open fields, cut up into numerous narrow strips, or ‘selions’ as they are locally termed, and cultivated by small farmers.
2. A furrow turned over by the plough. nonce-use.
1877G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 69 No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine. |