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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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.

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).

单词	half-foot
释义	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. 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 lemmas half-foot half-foot n. extracted from half-comb. form 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. extracted from half-comb. form < n.OE as lemmas
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half-footn.

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