| 单词 | hide and gaine |
| 释义 | > as lemmashide and gaine b. hide and gaine [ < Old French gaigne, gaingne arable land, ‘terre labourable’ (Godefroy)] .These words appear to be given originally as synonyms of arable land. But later compilers took them as a phrase. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land earthlandeOE falloweOE acreOE hide and gaine1347 furrowc1380 teamlanda1387 tilthc1460 arablec1475 tilling land1488 flat1513 plough-tilth1516 ploughland1530 tillage1543 plough-ground1551 teamware1567 ploughing ground1625 ploughing land1674 prairie-breaking1845 plough1859 1347 in Fitzherb. Abridg. tit. Admeasurement ⁋8 f. 15 La terre a qe le comen est claim app[endant] fuit auncient terre hide & geign. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 85 b And the Common Law giueth errable land (which anciently is called Hyde & gaine) the preheminencie and precedencie before meadowes [etc.]. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Hide and Gain, arable Land, or the same as gainage. 1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 383 Hide and Gayne did anciently signifie arrable Land. < as lemmas |
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