单词 | hedge-rew |
释义 | > as lemmashedge-rew b. spec. A hedgerow (also more fully hay-rew, hedge-rew); (also) a row of trees (cf. shaw n.1). English regional (chiefly south-eastern) in later use.In early use also with modifying word, as hazel-, thorn-, withy-rew, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow hedgerow940 rewOE rowa1225 palisado1604 crackmans1610 hedgeling1787 OE Bounds (Sawyer 1393) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 359 Þæt is ærest of bradaforda east in ða hegreawe. Æfter þære heghreawe þæt cymð innan ða ealdan dic. OE Bounds (Sawyer 1003) in D. Hooke Pre-Conquest Charter-bounds Devon & Cornwall (1994) 204 Þanon up andlang þære ealdan ræwe on þa stapulas. OE Bounds (Sawyer 1593) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 389 Of þæm æcere þurh þone wudu on uffa læge, andlang hreawe on lytlan broc. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 972) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1846) IV. 45 Of ðam herpaðe west on ða lange rewe on ðone stan. a1170 ( Bounds (Sawyer 858) in M. Gelling Place-names Berks. (1976) III. 737 Of cealdan wylle, to þære ðorn rewe [a1225 Claud. B.vi þorn rawe]. 1375 in A. H. Cooke Early Hist. Mapledurham (1925) 206 (MED) Certeyn londis Shawys Grovys Crofts Wodys lesuris and heggerewys Callid Bardolfys londis. 1839 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms (new ed.) at Row In Hants, a hedge-row is called a Hedge-rue. 1853 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provincialisms Sussex (ed. 2) 71 Rue, a row; a hedge-row. 1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 60 Rue, a small strip of coppice. 1889 R. Nevill Old Cottages & Domest. Archit. S.W. Surrey xii. 115 The paving of this road is still very perfect in some of the wooded ‘rews’ at Coxland. 1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 93/2 [Sussex] Rew, a hedge sufficiently wide for a man to walk up inside it beating for pheasants. 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 105/2 Rew, a rough hedge and ditch division between fields. < as lemmas |
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