单词 | futtah |
释义 | futtahn. New Zealand. A food-store raised on posts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] cellar?c1225 larderc1305 pantrya1325 butleryc1325 spencec1386 larder-house1390 aumbrya1398 lardinera1400 meatfettle1440 spinde1481 selyer1483 pantyr?a1500 vault1500 eschansonnery1514 lardrya1552 lard-house1555 coveyc1593 brine-house1594 dispense1622 reservatory1647 provedore1694 ice cellar1735 spring house1755 provision house1787 futtah1834 pataka1842 1834 E. Markham N.Z. Recoll. 37 I have seen a Wutter or Platform 80 feet above ground in an immense Tree all the Branches cut off And a Platform well secured, and the Potatoes on it and thatched over. 1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 100 Walker..afterwards gave him another pair of trousers from the futtah. 1888 A. H. Duncan Wakatipians iii. 22 The buildings at the home-station..were represented by a ‘futter’ and a long narrow hut. 1891 Rep. Austral. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. III. 378 The men gathered the food and stored it in whatas or store-rooms, which were attached to every chief's compound, and built on tall posts to protect the contents from damp and rats. 1892 N.Z. Alpine Jrnl. 1 ii. 95 Our second [camp] was in George's Creek, where we built a ‘futtah’ for the provisions. 1954 E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (ed. 2) iii. v. 260 Most stations..had a futtah—a corruption of the Maori word, whata, meaning ‘a raised store~house in which food is kept’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1834 |
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