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单词 ox-skin
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ox-skinn.

Brit. /ˈɒksskɪn/, U.S. /ˈɑksˌskɪn/
Forms: see ox n. and skin n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., skin n.
Etymology: < ox n. + skin n.In sense 2 arising from reanalysis of osken , oskin , northern English regional variants of oxgang n., as < ox n. + skin n., probably reinforced by association of hide n.1 and hide n.2
1. The skin of an ox, esp. as used for clothing.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skin of bull, cow, or ox
bull-hidec1275
oxhidec1350
bull-skinc1400
ox-skin?a1450
huddron1592
cowhide1640
cow-skin1780
steerhide1921
?a1450 in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1817) I. 443 (MED) She must be charged with all the ox-skeynes that she selleth.
1689 R. Wild Benefice iv. 53 Marry'd Wives wear Fox-skins, And their Husbands Ox-skins.
1775 in A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada (1809) ii. ix. 256 Tents of a circular form, and composed of dressed ox-skins, stretched upon poles twelve feet in length.
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 265 We were obliged to wrap ourselves..in ox-skins, which the traders call buffalo-robes.
1904 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 34 260 Chopped sugar cane, which is pounded..until it is reduced to a pulp. This is put into an oxskin which is laid over a hole in the ground so that it forms a concave receptacle.
1985 E. Kuzwayo Call me Woman ii. iv. 71 The girls appeared in..ox-skin skirts and were smeared with red ochre.
2. = oxgang n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure
wandalec1150
wista1200
landc1400
ridge1439
peck1442
scrophec1450
buttc1460
rig1485
mark1488
stick1531
farthingdeal1543
plough-gang1548
quarterland1563
ploughgate1565
last1576
wand1596
ox-skin1610
garbred1621
plank1631
nooka1634
buttal1635
farthinga1640
rick1641
familia1676
rhandir1688
setiera1690
worthine1701
fierding1768
whip-land1811
rai1933
1610 A. Hopton Baculum Geodæticum i. ii. 21 Foure akers (saith he) make a yard of land, fiue yards of land contain a hide..in Yorkeshire and other countries they call a hide an Oxe skinne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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