| 单词 | mathom-house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmathom-house mathom-house n. †(a) a treasure-house, a treasury (obsolete); (b) a building for the storage of curios, bric-a-brac, etc. ΚΠ OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 240 Gazophilacium, madmhus. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Corpus Cambr.) xlvii. 14 Iosep hæfde gegaderod eal þæt feoh þe hi ahton & gebroht on þæs kynges madmhuse. OE Possessions, Rents, & Grants, Bury St. Edmunds in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 194 In madmhus XII mæssehacelan & nigon cantercæppa & IIII roccas & VII stolan. c1225 ( Ælfric Gloss. (Worcester) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 553 [Gaza] filacium, madmhus. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring 15 Weapons..were..gathered into the museum at Michel Delving. The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. < as lemmas |
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