| 单词 | custom oats |
| 释义 | > as lemmascustom oats b. attributive. British regional (chiefly Scottish). Designating goods offered as a customary payment to a lord or ruler (cf. sense A. 4), as custom corn, custom lamb, custom oats, custom salt, etc. historical in later use. ΚΠ 1532 in D. Laing Reg. Domus de Soltre (1861) 108 I assigne to him..the sext part of the landis off the Blair with the custom salt off the samen. 1596 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1842) II. 134 Four bollis custome aittes, yeirlie addettit be the said William. 1647 Burnett Family Papers in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1973) I. 793/2 Fyve mairks for a custome wedder & a custome lamb. 1654 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Peebles (1910) 22 The proveist and..baillies to await upon the gentlemen..anent custome oattes. 1703 T. Ashe in Jrnl. County Louth Archaeol. Soc. 9 (1938) 89 To Lord Primat out of every Boat that comes in is due..the Custom or Duty Fish. There are but 5 Boats that ply there now and the Custom Fish is of no great value whatever it is. 1809 Aberdeen Jrnl. 19 Apr. (advt.) The tenant will be supplied with custom-fowls. 1900 A. W. Moore Hist. Isle of Man I. ii. iv. 318 Custom corn, ling and turf for the garrisons. 1982 M. H. B. Sanderson Sc. Rural Soc. in 16th Cent. iii. 30 The laird of Lochleven's tenants, about mid-century, paid wedder silver (i.e. in place of custom sheep) but rendered custom corn in kind. < as lemmas |
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