单词 | neat-house |
释义 | neat-housen. Now chiefly English regional (East Anglian). 1. Chiefly English regional (East Anglian). A house or shed in which cattle are kept. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle house byrea800 shipponc900 neat-house1440 oxhousea1475 fee-house1483 cow-house1530 neatery1647 cow-stable1648 mistal1673 hemel1717 bull-house1808 barn-cellar1842 tie-up1851 cow-shippon1859 bullock-shed1865 cow-shed1886 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 354 Neet howse, boscar. a1450 Forest Laws in W. A. Baillie-Grohman & F. Baillie-Grohman Master of Game (1904) 241 If..ony mon..made ony house that ony beest vseth..that is..swynhouse, nethouse, shephouse, ye shul do vs to wete ho hath hem made. ?1592 J. Manwood Brefe Coll. Lawes Forest 125 Any Swine-house, Neathouse, or sheepe-house. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iv. iii. 634 The best and purest dung that you can find in your neathouse. 1786 in W. S. Fitch Cabbages & Dairying High Suffolk (1845) f. 128 in J. Thirsk & J. Imray Suffolk Farming 19th Cent. (1958) 65 This method is commonly used only with cows before calving: when they calve they are moved to the neat houses. 1806 R. Bloomfield Wild Flowers 43 Sue round the neathouse squalling ran. 1825 Let it Alone in Houlston Tracts (Brit. Mus.) I. xiv. 5 I must not put off..building a neat-house. 1892 East Anglian Daily Times in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) (at cited word) In tha' nittus. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 80 Net'us (neat house), a cowhouse. 1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 53 Nettus, neat-house, a building used for housing cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > market-garden > spec neat-housea1640 a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iii. i. 14 The Neathouse for Musk-mellons, and the Gardens Where we traffick for Asparagus. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 19 Aug. (1970) II. 158 Among some trees near the neate-houses. 1696 London Gaz. No. 3162/4 A Messuage and 14 Acres of Garden ground at the Neathouses, Westminster. 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 184 The first, which are Kitchen Gardens,..are those at the Neat-Houses near Tuttle-fields, Westminster. 1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner Pref. 11 The practice of our Neathouse-men and Gardiners. 1804 Earl of Lauderdale Inq. Nature & Origin Public Wealth iii. 132 The produce of the soil at the Neat-houses before mentioned. 1851 Gentleman's Mag. 36 470/2 There is little doubt that, in a state of drunkenness, she [sc. Nell Gwyn's mother] fell into a ditch, near the Neat-houses, on the road to Chelsea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440 |
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