单词 | halffoot |
释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : half-footn. > 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. < see also as lemmas |
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