| 单词 | grass mail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrass mail grass mail n. Scottish (now rare) money paid for the grazing of livestock; rent of pastureland; cf. mail n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent > rent grass-silver1322 agistmenta1447 grass mail1479 1479 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 41/1 He Resavit þe said scheipe in gresing fra þe said lady & tuke & Is pait of his gerss male þarfore. 1657 in C. B. Gunn Rec. Baron Court Stitchill (1905) 10 Aught merkes for grass maill with twelve sh. and 8d. for myllestane silver. 1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. June 286/1 10 l. Scots was in payment of the grass-mail of cattle. 1860 Sheriff Court Rep. 77/1 in Sc. Law Jrnl. & Sheriff Court Rec. 2 The defender further averred that he paid Macfarlane the grass-mail, at a settlement of accounts with Macfarlane, who owed the defender for corn and meal. 1947 Berwickshire News 30 Sept. 3/6 The Burgh Treasurer reported that the Grass Mail from season 1947 had been paid. < as lemmas |
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