| 单词 | lammas-field |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLammas-field Lammas-land n. (see quot. 1875); similarly Lammas-field, Lammas-mead, Lammas-meadow-ground, Lammas-rights. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > Lammas lands Lammas-land1694 1694 London Gaz. No. 2989/4 [It] has the benefit of a good Common, and several Acres of Lammas Meadow-Ground. 1787 S. Trimmer Œcon. Charity 113 The privilege of the people to turn in on the Lammas lands is insensibly sliding away. 1826 Sunday Times 27 Aug. 3/3 To enquire to whom the right of hiring, mowing or feeding-off the crops on King's or Lammas Meads vested. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 246 The Roman tribesman..would probably have followed the early custom retained in the regulations of the ‘Lammas fields’ in England, his arable resuming the character of common pasturage as soon as the crops were off the ground. 1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) x. 445 Thus our ‘Lammas Lands’ were so called, because they were private property until Lammas-day (August 1),..after which period they were subject to common rights of pasturage till the spring. 1892 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 19 Nov. 165/1 Lands which were subject to lammas rights had been acquired by the Ealing Local Board. < as lemmas |
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