单词 | oxhouse |
释义 | oxhousen. Now chiefly historical. A shed for stabling or sheltering oxen; (also) an ox-stall. 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 1446 Inventory in H. Fishwick Hist. Parish Lytham (1907) 80 (MED) In le Oxinhous for le seruands iiij Shetes for ij beddes.] a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 318 In the which mese is I-conteyned: j halle..j kechyn..j oxe-hous for oxen. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 727/2 (MED) Bostare: a noxhows. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xx. f. 35v Two barnes and an oxe house, a hey house and a stable. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 12 An entrie..to the Oxhouses. 1657 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1885) III. 41 The half of the oxehowse next and Adjoyning to the west end of the Barron. a1697 J. Aubrey Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 40 They goe into the Ox-house to the oxen, with the Wassell-bowle and drink to the ox. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. sig. G2 Ox-Hoose, an ox, or cow-stall. Exm[oor]. 1812 J. Bigland Beauties Eng. & Wales XVI. 629 The barn and ox-houses, which separate it from the..stack-yard. 1854 T. Forester tr. Chron. Florence of Worcester Contin. 261 The king..went in pursuit of him, placing the bishops he had arrested in custody; Roger in the crib of an ox-house [L. in bostario in boum praesaepio], and the other in a mean hut. 1930 Times 24 Dec. 5/7 Three ox-houses and three ricks of hay were destroyed by a fire which broke out yesterday. 1993 J. M. Vlach Back of Big House vii. 108 Listed among the plantation's buildings [in 1825] were a cotton house, a corn house,..and an ox house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1475 |
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