| 单词 | hand and thigh |
| 释义 | > as lemmashand and thigh e. Irish History. hand and thigh: used with reference to the inheritance of land by a daughter in the absence of male heirs. [After Early Irish orba cruib ocus slíasta, lit. ‘(inherited) estate of hand and thigh’ (also orba cruib no slíasta, lit. ‘(inherited) estate of hand or thigh’); slíasait ‘thigh’ is used in some phrases to imply sexual union (here probably marriage), but the precise sense of crob ‘hand’ in this context is unclear.] ΚΠ 1873 W. K. Sullivan in E. O'Curry On Manners & Customs Anc. Irish I. Introd. p. clxxii Ultimately, however, daughters appear to have become entitled to inherit all if there were no sons. The land thus given to a daughter was called ‘an inheritance of hand and thigh’. 1873 W. K. Sullivan in E. O'Curry On Manners & Customs Anc. Irish I. Introd. p. clxxii An explanation of why the estate ‘of hand and thigh’ was one-third the estate of a Fiath. 1911 G. H. Orpen Ireland under Normans I. iv. 125 Land which had come to be regarded as heritable..such as lands belonging to the gelfine when the male succession failed.., and orba cruibh no sliasta (‘hand and thigh land’) of the mother, [etc.]. 1996 L. M. Bitel Land of Women vi. 114 Daughters could also inherit what lawyers called orba cruib ocus slíasta, ‘land of hand and thigh’. < as lemmas |
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