单词 | ox-stall |
释义 | ox-stalln. A stall or stable for oxen. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle stall boosyc950 cribOE ox-stallc1330 boosec1440 corn-crib1716 c1330 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 142 (MED) Love we god, & he us alle, þat was born in an oxe stalle. c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 342 She was born and fed in rudenesse As in a cote or in an oxe stalle [v.rr. oxtall, Oxes stalle, oxsis stalle]. c1400 tr. Aelred of Rievaulx De Institutione Inclusarum (Vernon) (1984) 33 (MED) A pore moder, a pouere mayde, a pouere hows he chees hym, þe streytnesse of an oxe-stalle. 1492 J. Ryman Poems xxxii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1892) 89 199 A childe they founde In an oxe stalle in raggis wounde. 1569 T. Blague Schole of Wise Conceytes 112 A Harte being pursued of a Hunter, ran into an Oxe stall, praying the Oxen to hide him in their rack. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. Proem. sig. F8v To purge this Augean oxstaule from foule sin. 1630 N. Richards Celestiall Publican sig. C5 Borne of a Virgin, came to the world a stranger His Palace an Oxe-stall, his Bed a Manger. 1833 E. B. Barrett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound in Prometheus & Misc. Poems 41 Hence to Lerne's plain, Enrich'd with flocks and ox-stalls of thy sire, That so Saturnius' eye may quench its love. 1894 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 185 10 In this case the patient pricked his foot in an Ox stall. a1944 H. D. Coll. Poems (1983) 610 It was only a thought, someday I will bring the other, as he placed his jar on the floor of the ox-stall. 1995 Providence Jrnl.-Bull. (Rhode Island) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 4 d The ox stalls became a study, the hay storage area a kitchen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1330 |
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