单词 | half-foot |
释义 | half-footn. 1. Prosody. A metrical unit consisting of half a foot. ΘΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > foot > half-foot semi-ped1756 OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 90 Hig secgað..þæt pentimemeris byð þe todælð þæt uers in þam oðrum fet, and byð gemet healf fot to lafe [L. post duos pedes inuenitur semipes]. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie (new ed.) ii. xvi. 108 Their hemimeris or halfe foote serued not by licence Poeticall or necessitie of words, but to bewtifie and exornate the verse by placing one such halfe foote in the middle Cesure. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hephthemimeres, in the Greek and Latin Poetry, a Sort of Verse consisting of three Feet, and a Syllable; that is, of seven half Feet. 1853 Eng. Gram. & Composition (Chambers's Educ. Course) 146 All these admit of variation, by dropping the final syllable, making each line contain an odd half-foot. 2022 C. Townsend George Berkeley & Romanticism 102 If we do not elide those syllables, the line is a half-foot too long for pentameter. 2. A length, depth, etc., of half a foot; six inches. Π a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. xxvi. 682 Effreuis [L. echinus] is a [lytel] fysshe vnneþe half foote longe [L. semipedalis]. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 129 Þe secunde half-fote wose in coueytise is raueyne. 1742 J. Bartram Let. in Corr. (1992) 197 We have allso a large marsh mouse near a half foot long in ye body. 1907 T. Dixon Traitor ii. 32 The flowing train of her cream-coloured morning gown made her look a half foot taller than she was. 2008 R. Rash Serena (2010) v. 61 One Saturday morning men awoke in their stringhouses to find a half-foot of snow on the ground. 3. Scottish. A method of cultivating land in which the landlord supplies the seed and the tenant and landlord share the crop. Now historical. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming high culture1771 scientific farming1789 metaying1792 high farming1815 petite culture1848 sharefarming1857 urban agriculture1860 bush-farming1866 mixed farming1872 dry farming1878 co-aration1883 co-ploughing1883 smallholding1889 power-farming1913 dry-land farming1914 third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940 link system1950 green revolution1968 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of farm tenure steelbow1434 rundale1474 runrig1525 crofting1851 mock1862 métayage1877 1814 Gen. Rep. Agric. State & Polit. Circumstances Scotl. App. ii. 396 Half foot, is another method of occupying a farm, equally barbarous in itself, and adverse to improvement. It is not so prevalent in the Highlands, as in some of the Western Isles. 1873 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. 5 298 Out or led farms like the metayers of France, or the half-foot tenants of the Hebrides. 2009 E. Griffiths & M. Overton Farming to Halves ii. 14 Steelbow tenure in Scotland, often collected with tithes... Also known as half-foot, or leth-cas, with livestock. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). > as lemmashalf-foot half-foot n. half-foot half-foot n. (see quot. 1880). ΚΠ c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 129 Þe secunde half-fote wose in coueytise is raueyne. 1814 Gen. Rep. Agric. State & Polit. Circumstances Scotl. App. ii. 396 Half foot, is another method of occupying a farm, equally barbarous in itself, and adverse to improvement. It is not so prevalent in the Highlands, as in some of the Western Isles. 1873 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. 5 298 Out or led farms like the metayers of France, or the half-foot tenants of the Hebrides. 1880 W. F. Skene Celtic Scotl. III. 370 A kind of tenancy called half-foot, where the possessor of the farm furnished the land and seed corn,..the produce being divided. < n.OE as lemmas |
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