单词 | eastland |
释义 | eastlandn. An eastern country or district; spec. (usually with capital initial) the (esp. eastern) Baltic region (now historical). Cf. East-country n.In quot. c1300: East Anglia. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun] > part or place eastdealeOE east halfeOE eastlandOE eastdalec1175 estrichea1200 East-countryc1325 east sidec1325 orientc1375 eastc1390 easta1475 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxix. 1 Witodlice þa he [sc. Jacob] com to þam eastlande [L. in terram orientalem]. OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 16 Cumað ut samod in Estmere, Ilfing eastan of Eastlande [i.e. Estlande], & Wisle suðan of Winodlande. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 246 Wittiest ha weren of alle þe meistres þet weren in est-londe. c1300 St. Kenelm (Laud) l. 45 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 346 Of þe Marche of walis, Of Esex [i.e. Westsex], and of North-homberlond and of est-lond al-so. 1329 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) I. 215 Pro bordis de Estland. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxix. 2 Iacob þann forþ gone come in to þe Est lond [a1425 Corpus Oxf. est loond, L. in terram Orientalem]. c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 193 Of eche cent. of borde of Irlond or of Estlond, that men clepyth eluying or waynscot. ?1563 in I. W. Archer et al. Relig., Politics, & Society in 16th-cent. Eng. (2003) 75 The merchauntes of London brought grete..quantytie of corne owt of Eastland. 1588 Ld. Burghley Copie Let. to B. Mendoza 20 Imprest of money [is] deliuered, and certaine sent into the Estlands, for great store of al maritime prouisions. a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 351 Mr. Normand Galloway..was in the eistland [i.e. Scandinavia]. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 81 The Commodities of East-land, and thereabouts..Cables, Canuas, Buffe-hides. 1659 J. Bland Trade Revived 18 The Hollanders trade to the East-land, and Norway, will vanish. 1746 T. Salmon Mod. Gazetteer Revel,..a port town of Livonia, in the division of Estonia, or East Land. 1759 tr. C. Le Brun Trav. into Moscovy, Persia, & East-Indies. v. 36 Livonia..is usually subdivided into two parts; that on the north called Eastonia, or Eastland. 1847 J. MacGregor Progress of Amer. II. xli. 1281 Coke..admits that the English shipping employed in the Eastland, and Baltic trades, had decreased at least two thirds. 1865 S. Bennett Hist. Austral. Discov. & Colonisation i. iv. 46 We..steered away near the east land, which ends with two remarkable capes or heads. 1912 R. A. S. MacAlister Hist. & Civilization Palestine iv. 48 We began the last chapter with a glance at Arabia and the East-lands. 1926 R. G. Albion Forests & Sea Power iv. 139 The whole forest region of northern Europe was generally known to the men of a few centuries ago as the Eastland or the East Country, for the Baltic was the ‘East Sea’ of the Germans. 2008 S. E. Sarkisian Tender Trysting xxxii. 157 The bridge that served to connect the eastlands to the westlands. Compounds C1. ΚΠ 1329 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) I. 215 Pro bordis de Estland.] 1361 in J. Raine Inventories & Acct. Rolls Benedictine Houses Jarrow & Monk-Wearmouth (1854) 156 Cc estlandbord. 1379–80 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 102 In iiij Estlandborde [i.e. planks from Norway] emp. ad ponend. subtus le Table magni clocher, 12d. 1434 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1880) IV. 580 Pro..tabulis que dicuntur Estland burdis. 1565 in D. H. Fleming Reform. Scotl. (1910) 609 Ane copeburd of thre staige of Aisland burd. C2. General attributive, as Eastland merchant, Eastland Company, etc. ΚΠ 1580 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 301 Item in the chalmer of deis ane stand bed of eistland tymmer with ruf and pannell of the same. a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 10 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) South part of the Baltick, or Eastland Sea. 1622 James I (title) Proclamation prohibiting the bringing in of any Commodities traded by the Eastland Merchants into this Kingdome. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade iv. 96 The Eastland and Norway Merchants, who affirm..their Trade is much declined since the passing the Act of Navigation. 1703 London Gaz. No. 3880/4 Two of the Convoys to our homeward-bound Eastland Fleet. 1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles lvi. 240 Phronimus, a considerable East-land Merchant. 1823 E. Baines Hist., Directory & Gazetteer County of York II. 248/2 The Baltic and Eastland trade, for which Hull is peculiarly well situated. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 408 How goes it then, With him—thy kinsman, mid the Eastland men? 1901 N. Munro in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 363/2 ‘Didna maitter!’ repeated the Chamberlain, viciously mimicking the Eastland accent. 2000 R. Harris Industrializing Eng. Law ii. 48 The diminished Eastland Company was finally dissolved in 1689. Derivatives ˈEastlandish adj. now rare Baltic; spec. Estonian. ΚΠ 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence Ep. Ded. High, Low, and Eastlandish Teutonick. 1722 tr. J. B. Müller Manners & Customs of Ostiacks in tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia II. ii. 62 The Esthonian or Eastlandish Language. 1819 tr. M. von Kotzebue Narr. Journey into Persia 46 Two little towers,..shaped like our Eastlandish cheeses, were very pretty. 1939 Acta philologica Scandinavica 11 337 The assimilated form brenne is especially Eastlandish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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