单词 | greenhew |
释义 | greenhewn. Now historical and rare. 1. Green vegetation growing in a wood or forest and serving as a cover for game; = vert n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > green parts of vert14.. vert1455 greenhew1598 verd1641 1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest viii. §4. f. 46 If the people of a whole towneship doe make wast in the greene hew of the Forrest. 1621 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 150 Received of Chr. Harding..for green-huge, ijs. viijd. 1648 E. Coke 4th Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. lxxiii. 299 The Kings Officers within his Forest have charge of Venison, and of Vert or Green hue for the maintenance or preservation of the Kings game. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 85 They may take unto themselves green hew, or wood, out of my woods. 1905 W. H. P. Greswell Forests & Deer Parks Somerset ix. 122 A synonym of vert is ‘greenhue’, which has been defined as everything that grows green within the forest, which is of the nature of ‘Boscus’ (busca), or ‘sub-boscus’, i.e. wood and underwood. 2003 J. Baker Oxf. Hist. Laws Eng. VI. xvi. 299 Vert (or greenhue) meant the trees and underwood which provided cover for the beasts. 2. English regional (north-western). (Payment for) the right to cut forest greenery for fodder, firewood, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right to cut grass, straw, etc. helm-bote1437 greenhew1777 sweepage1895 1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. vi. 113 They claimed likewise underwood, and wood for all necessary boots, and loppings of timber trees and other wood, for which they paid greenhew. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Green-hew, the right of cutting hollies and evergreens in winter for sheep, etc. 1895 Lakeland Gloss. Greenhew, a word found in old manorial writings, used for the payment of cutting trees upon an estate by the tenant. 1906 Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian Soc. 6 7 That the usual green-hew rent was paid we know from the Accounts of the Ambleside Hall estate in 1705. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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