单词 | ox-land |
释义 | ox-landn.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > ground as suitable for cultivation landc825 earthOE farmland1357 ox-landa1387 red land1459 lair1519 mainland1686 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 197 (MED) Beotia, oxe-lond, haþ þe name of bos, þat is an oxe. 1663 in S. L. Bailey Hist. Sketches Andover, Mass. (1880) 13 All those my two parcells of oxland or ploughing ground on the westerly side of ye Shawshin river. 2. = oxgang n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > carucate and equivalents > the eighth part of ploughland oxgang1343 ox-landa1387 oxgate1585 ox-yard1897 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 97 Danegeld..was þre pans of eueriche bouata terræ, þat is, of eueriche oxeland. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 135 viij acres make an Oxelande..viij oxelandes make a ploweland..x plowlands make a knightes ffee. 1820 2nd Rep. Commissioners Weights & Meas. 24 Ox-Land, Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire: 8 customary acres. 1846 S. Bagshaw Hist., Gazetteer & Directory Derbyshire 42 The king [sc. Edward the Confessor] had likewise another church, in which six clerks held nine ox-lands free in Cornum and Ditton. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 592/1 The carucata of the Danelagh, the eight part of which was the bouata or ‘ox-land’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387 |
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