| 单词 | hinder-end barley |
| 释义 | > as lemmashinder-end barley 3. (Usually plural) The part of anything (e.g. of corn) which remains after all selecting and sifting operations have been used; leavings. (Also attributive, as hinder-end barley.) Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > leavings after main part exhausted > after a process residuum1687 hinder end1825 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Hinder-ends, refuse of corn—such as remains after it is winnowed. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) 5. Hinder-end o' aw trade, the worst business to which one can betake one's self... The hinder-end o' aw folk, the worst of people. 1842 C. Nevile New Tariff 15 Pigs..fed upon hinder-end barley. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) We send forends to market..and chickens gets th' hinderends. < as lemmas |
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