| 单词 | horngarth |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorngarth horngarth n. [garth n.1] (see quot. 1928). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > fence or barrier ward-dyke1561 horngarth1779 ox-fence1811 ox rail1844 oxer1859 skerm1861 1779 L. Charlton Hist. Whitby ii. 96 The Hornegarth..seems to have been a certain stake and yether hedge, made up in the beginning of summer by all those in Whitby-Strand who held land of the Abbot. 1890 Hornes' Guide to Whitby 18 About the year 1315,..the Horngarth was made at the town of Whitby, with wood from the abbot's forest. 1894 J. C. Atkinson Mem. Old Whitby 50 There is no reason whatever for questioning the conclusion that the Horngarth service..must date back to pre-conquest times. 1928 Daily Express 24 May 3 What is the ceremony of ‘planting the Horngarth’?.. Driving in a hedge of stakes near Whitby Harbour to the sound of a horn, a custom dating to feudal times, to prevent cattle from straying into the harbour. < as lemmas |
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