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单词 half-foot
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half-footn.

Brit. /ˈhɑː(f)fʊt/, U.S. /ˈhæ(f)ˌfʊt/, Scottish English /ˈha(f)fut/
Inflections: Plural half-feet.
Forms: see half adj. and foot n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., foot n.
Etymology: < half adj. + foot n.In use with reference to verse (see sense 1) originally after classical Latin sēmipēs metrical half-foot (see semi-ped n.); in later use translating -hemimeris (in e.g. classical Latin penthēmimeris penthemimer n. or post-classical Latin hephthemimeris hephthemimer n.). With use as a unit of measurement (see sense 2) compare earlier constructions with ordinal numeral, e.g. in ōðres healfes fōtes gemet measurement of one and a half (literally ‘other half’) feet, tēoðan healfes fōtes lang nine and a half (literally ‘tenth half’) feet long (compare other half at other adj. 2b and half adj. 2). Compare also late Middle English half-foten (adjective) half a foot long (a1425). Compare further post-classical Latin sēmipēs (noun, of length) half a foot, and sēmipedālis (adjective) half a foot long (compare quot. a1398). In use with reference to a form of land tenure (see sense 3) after Scottish Gaelic leathchas, leth-chas, in the same sense, literally ‘one foot or leg’ (i.e. half of a pair).
1. Prosody. A metrical unit consisting of half a foot.
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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.
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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.
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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).

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half-foot
half-foot n.
extracted from half-comb. form
half-foot
half-foot n. (see quot. 1880).
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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.
extracted from half-comb. form
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