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单词 feer
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feern.1

Brit. /fɪə/, U.S. /fɪ(ə)r/, Scottish English /fir/
Forms: Middle English feor, 1700s– Scottish fiar, fier, feer.
Etymology: Middle English feor < Old French feor, feur, fuer fixed price, standard: Latin forum (in classical Latin market).
Only Middle English and Scottish.
1. A price. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun]
cheapc1025
lofa1200
feer?c1225
pricea1382
apricec1460
tag1968
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 292 Sete feor oþiluue.
a1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 287 Ȝif þat i mi luue bede for to selle and setle feor þer upon swa hehe swa ich eauer wile.
c1320 Cast. Love 1091 Ȝif þou wilt him bugge to his feore.
2. Scottish. See quot. 18.. and fiars n.
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18.. J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Fier, Feer, a standard of any kind. Yarn is said to be spun by, i.e. beyond, the fier, when it is drawn smaller than the proper thickness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

feern.2

Forms: See also fiar n.
Etymology: < fee v.1 + -er suffix1.
Obsolete. rare.
One who fees or gives a fee to another.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > employer > [noun] > hirer of labour
feer1583
padrone1747
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F1 They are..in fee with the Drapers and Clothsellers, that if a man come to them to desire them to helpe them to buy a peece of cloth..they will straightway conduct them to their feer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

feern.3

/ˈfɪə/
Etymology: < fee v.2 + -er suffix1.
Mining.
One who fees or loads up the coal.
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Feer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

feerfereadj.

Etymology: < Old French fer, fier (modern French fier .) = Provençal fer , Italian fiero , Spanish fiero < Latin ferus : see fierce n.
Obsolete. rare.
Bold, fierce; proud.
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the mind > emotion > pride > spirited pride > [adjective]
feerc1380
great-willya1382
great-hearteda1398
high-stomached1546
lion-mettleda1616
well-crested1642
the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > keenness > [adjective]
whata1000
keenlyc1275
feerc1380
sternful?a1400
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 329 A knyȝt ful feer.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 414 Roland ys..so coraious & so fere.
c1450 Guy Warw. (C.) 1428 He was a bolde man and a fere.
c1480 (a1400) St. Euphemia 141 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 421 Þe Jug, fel & fere.
c1480 (a1400) St. Thecla 217 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 438 Syne come a lyone fel & fere.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

feerv.

/fiːr//fɪə/
Forms: Middle English fere, 1700s–1800s feer, 1800s Scottish feir.
Etymology: Perhaps (as suggested by Jamieson) representing Old English fyrian to make a furrow ( < *furhjan ), < furh furrow n.; for the phonology compare beir , beere as variants of birr n.1
‘To mark off the breadth of every ridge (of land) for ploughing, by drawing a furrow on each side of the space allotted for it’ (Jamieson).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > mark off for or by ploughing
feerc1400
strike1707
c1400 in W. G. Henderson Manuale & Processionale Ecclesiæ Eboracensis (1875) 224* Yee shale praye for all lande tilland and lee ferand.
1862 J. Wilson Farming vi. 206 This operation—called in Scotland feiring the land—is usually entrusted to the most skilful ploughman on each farm.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) To feer land, is to set it out as it is intended to be ploughed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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