单词 | acatry |
释义 | acatryn. Now historical. (a) Provisions bought in rather than made in the house, esp. meat and fish. (b) A place of storage of, or staff responsible for, such provisions in a large household, spec. the English royal household. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] victualsa1375 substancec1384 repasta1393 kitchenc1400 tablec1405 stuff1436 acates1465 acatry1522 victualling1532 provision1555 achates1570 plate1577 avitaile1592 support1599 horn and corn1633 subsistence1640 cribbing1652 purvey1678 commissariat1811 ration1814 commissary1883 1522 in W. Jerdan Rutland Papers (1842) 78 Item, placardes to be hadd for the purveors of the pultre, accatre, and other. 1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 142 The serjeant of the acatry..shall see that..as well flesh as fish, be good & of the best. 1551–2 in Visct. Strangford Househ. Expenses Princess Elizabeth at Hatfield (1853) 18 Thacatrye. Thomas Burchall for veales... Henry Traiford for ij. hogges of bacon. 1603 H. Chettle Englandes Mourning Garment sig. F2v Purueyors of the Acatrie. 1663 F. Philipps Antiq. Præ-emption & Pourveyance for King v. 278 The Serjeant of the Accatrie, the Head of the Oxe, the Tongue, Midriff, Panch, and four Feet. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The officers of the Acatery, are a Sergeant, two Joint-Clerks, and a Yeoman of the Salt-Stores. 1744 S. Gale in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1882) I. 365 The rest are spices for madam's accatery. 1787 Archaeologia 8 346 The serjeant of the king's accatry was to satisfy all damages, debts, and executions, recovered against any purveyor and achatour in such cases. 1860 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 8 29/1 In Henry the Eighth's household there was a sergeant of the Acatry whose duty was ‘to make provyson of freshe acates, as well for fleshe as for fishe’. 1928 Times 23 Apr. 15/7 He had been Serjeant of the Acatry to Queen Mary. 1945 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 62/1 The largest of the commissariat departments was the acatry, the division responsible for meat and fish. 1980 C. Erickson Great Harry xiii. 98 Perishables such as fresh meat, fish, poultry, cheese, vegetables and eggs were stored in the acatery, a general storehouse for the foodstuffs bought daily at the palace gates by the clerk of the market. 2001 L. A. Clarkson & E. M. Crawford Feast & Famine (2005) x. 269 These [subdepartments responsible for purveyance] were the bakehouse (wheat), the cellar (wines),..the acatry (beef, mutton, fish), the poultry (fowl, rabbit, lamb, cream, butter, eggs, onions, wild fowl), the scullery, and the wood yard, cart-taking, and the stables. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1522 |
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