cloth-yardn.

Forms: see cloth n. and yard n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cloth n., yard n.²

Etymology: < cloth n. + yard n.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcloth-yard.

The yard by which cloth was measured: chiefly in cloth-yard shaft, applied in ballads to an arrow of the long bow. According to Act 3 & 4 Edward VI c. 2 §8 ‘cloth was to bee meten and measured by the yard, adding to every yard one inch of the rule’; subsequently the standard yard of 36 inches was adopted.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > yard > specific

tailor's yard1547

cloth-yardc1560

c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 309 An arow, that a cloth-yarde was lang to the harde stele halyde he.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 88 That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper, draw me a clothiers yard. ]

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 They not an Arrow drew but was a cloth-yard long.

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. xii. 104 A cloth-yard shaft Whistled from startled Tinlinn's yew.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 2 With the yew-bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	cloth-yard
释义	cloth-yardn. Forms: see cloth n. and yard n.² Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cloth n., yard n.² Etymology: < cloth n. + yard n.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcloth-yard. The yard by which cloth was measured: chiefly in cloth-yard shaft, applied in ballads to an arrow of the long bow. According to Act 3 & 4 Edward VI c. 2 §8 ‘cloth was to bee meten and measured by the yard, adding to every yard one inch of the rule’; subsequently the standard yard of 36 inches was adopted. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > yard > specific tailor's yard1547 cloth-yardc1560 c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 309 An arow, that a cloth-yarde was lang to the harde stele halyde he. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 88 That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper, draw me a clothiers yard. View more context for this quotation] 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 They not an Arrow drew but was a cloth-yard long. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. xii. 104 A cloth-yard shaft Whistled from startled Tinlinn's yew. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 2 With the yew-bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1560
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