单词 | goafstead |
释义 | > as lemmasgoafstead goafstead n. English regional (East Anglian) (now chiefly historical and rare) each of the bays or divisions of a barn in which corn, straw, etc., is stacked up and stored; these bays collectively; (in early use also) the contents of such a bay; cf. middlestead n. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a. ΚΠ 1523 Indenture 28 Dec. in P. Brown Sibton Abbey Cartularies & Charters (1988) IV. 72 [Two rooms..called] ij golfested' [at the north end of the hay barn]. 1587 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 90 A golsteade of haye xls. 1637 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 91 Wheat & mixtling one gouestead to thrash 60 combes 50 li. 1719 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 91 A Barn of 4 Golfe steads and one middle stead to be built upon the heath. 1795 R. Burroughes Jrnl. in Farming Jrnl. 7 Sept. (1995) 67 Ten loads..plac'd into the south goafstead & middlestead. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Goaf-stead, every division of a barn in which a goaf is placed. A large barn has four or more. 1861 Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 682 The body of a cart, with its bargain of corn or hay, can be lifted off its axle to the level of, or above, the stack or goafstead. 1962 G. E. Evans Ask Fellows who cut Hay (ed. 2) xi. 93 The corn was stored in the spaces on each side of the middlestead of a barn: these were called the goafstead. 1969 G. E. Evans Farm & Village viii. 83 As the loose barley was unloaded on to the goafstead, a boy rode a quite old farmhorse round and round on the corn, trampling it down. < as lemmas |
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