英语词汇“meiths and bounds”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. A landmark or other feature marking a boundary. Also (frequently in plural and in meiths and bounds, meiths and marches, etc.): a boundary, a limit (literal and figurative). Cf. mete n.¹ 2. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark

markingOE

boundc1275

marka1325

merea1387

meithc1430

limit1439

doolc1440

prop1450

march1495

landmark1535

mere boundc1600

mere-mark1611

border-mark1613

bound-mark1623

bounder-mark1666

boundary-mark1878

c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 57/2 Be certane methis and merys.

1492 in H. Rose & L. Shaw Geneal. Deduction Family Rose of Kilravock (1848) 159 To compel Huchone Ros..to consent to the perambuling and divising of the methis and boundis of the landis of Kilrawak.

1494 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 195/2 The distructioun of the merches and methes betuix [etc.].

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. viii. 86 The dait and methis approchis of hys eild.

1579 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 124 To vesy thair meithis and boundis.

c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 534 Gif the meithis and merchis of ony landis..be castin doun.

a1680 G. Dallas Syst. Stiles (1697) 710 The old Bounds, Marches and Meiths of the same [Lands].

1691 G. Rule Farther Vindic. Church Scotl. 12 It were a good office of the highest import to shew any meaths or marks for finding out the marches between the civil and eccesiiastick authority.

1707 in J. Wilson Ann. Hawick (1850) 120 The said day, Robert Roucastil and Robert Brown..did ride the meiths and marches of the Common.

1776 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1911) II. 117 The tenants of Nigg and others have come over within the meiths of the burrow and cast turf and fuel.

1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 180 Each mark of land bounded by mark-stones or meithes, naturally contained very little soil fit for tillage.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. iii. 61 They had been ower the neighbour's ground they had leave on up to the march, and they werena just to ken meiths when the moorfowl got up.

1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew xxxix. 4 Lat me wit, O Lord, o' my en'; an' the meath o' my days, what it's a'.

a1880 W. Robbie Mains of Yonderton (1928) iii. 15 The craetur seems to hae nae meaths o's stammack. Aw've seen 'im ate mair at ae doon-sittin' than wud sair twa ordinary men for a haill day.

单词	meiths and bounds
释义	> as lemmas meiths and bounds a. A landmark or other feature marking a boundary. Also (frequently in plural and in meiths and bounds, meiths and marches, etc.): a boundary, a limit (literal and figurative). Cf. mete n.¹ 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark markingOE boundc1275 marka1325 merea1387 meithc1430 limit1439 doolc1440 prop1450 march1495 landmark1535 mere boundc1600 mere-mark1611 border-mark1613 bound-mark1623 bounder-mark1666 boundary-mark1878 c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 57/2 Be certane methis and merys. 1492 in H. Rose & L. Shaw Geneal. Deduction Family Rose of Kilravock (1848) 159 To compel Huchone Ros..to consent to the perambuling and divising of the methis and boundis of the landis of Kilrawak. 1494 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 195/2 The distructioun of the merches and methes betuix [etc.]. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. viii. 86 The dait and methis approchis of hys eild. 1579 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 124 To vesy thair meithis and boundis. c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 534 Gif the meithis and merchis of ony landis..be castin doun. a1680 G. Dallas Syst. Stiles (1697) 710 The old Bounds, Marches and Meiths of the same [Lands]. 1691 G. Rule Farther Vindic. Church Scotl. 12 It were a good office of the highest import to shew any meaths or marks for finding out the marches between the civil and eccesiiastick authority. 1707 in J. Wilson Ann. Hawick (1850) 120 The said day, Robert Roucastil and Robert Brown..did ride the meiths and marches of the Common. 1776 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1911) II. 117 The tenants of Nigg and others have come over within the meiths of the burrow and cast turf and fuel. 1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 180 Each mark of land bounded by mark-stones or meithes, naturally contained very little soil fit for tillage. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. iii. 61 They had been ower the neighbour's ground they had leave on up to the march, and they werena just to ken meiths when the moorfowl got up. 1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew xxxix. 4 Lat me wit, O Lord, o' my en'; an' the meath o' my days, what it's a'. a1880 W. Robbie Mains of Yonderton (1928) iii. 15 The craetur seems to hae nae meaths o's stammack. Aw've seen 'im ate mair at ae doon-sittin' than wud sair twa ordinary men for a haill day. extracted from meithn. < as lemmas
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