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单词 barrace
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barracen.

/ˈbarəs/
Forms: Middle English–1500s barres, barras, Middle English barrais, barreys, (1500s barrowis), Middle English–1800s barrace.
Etymology: < Old French barras, < barre bar n.1
Obsolete exc. Historical.
1. A barrier or outwork in front of a fortress.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork
forewallOE
barrace1380
before-wallinga1382
vaumurec1475
faussebraie1490
forework1497
vauntmure1562
counterguard1591
forefence1609
forefight?1611
outworkc1615
crownwork1638
false braye1645
crowned work1677
1380 Sir Ferumb. 4679 Þanne come þe Sarzinz out And defendede þe barres al about.
1483 Cath. Angl. 23 A Barras, antemurale.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 96 Ysche thai wald And bargane at the barras [1489 Adv. barrais] hald.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 136 Off hewyn temyr in haist he gert thaim tak..and a stark barres mak.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxv. 124 Rounde aboute this place he dyd make diches and barreys for to defende himselfe.
2. The bar of a tribunal; = bar n.1 22. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > bar of tribunal
barc1330
barracec1613
public bar1654
c1613 ( in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 142 This day was new barresses made in Westmynster hall, and thether was brought Therle of Warwek, and arrened.
3. A hindrance, obstruction, delay. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle
hinderc1200
withsetting1340
obstaclec1385
traversea1393
mara1400
bayc1440
stoppagec1450
barrace1480
blocka1500
objecta1500
clog1526
stumbling-stone1526
bar1530
(to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548
stumbling-stock1548
hindrance1576
a log in one's way1579
crossbar1582
log1589
rub1589
threshold1600
scotch1601
dam1602
remora1604
obex1611
obstructiona1616
stumbling-blocka1616
fence1639
affront1642
retardance1645
stick1645
balk1660
obstruent1669
blockade1683
sprun1684
spoke1689
cross cause1696
uncomplaisance1707
barrier1712
obstruct1747
dike1770
abatis1808
underbrush1888
bunker1900
bump1909
sprag1914
hurdle1924
headwind1927
mudhole1933
monkey wrench1937
roadblock1945
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiii. iv But I, whyche wel knowe this barras and whilis, toke wt me armes for squyres.
4. The enclosure within which knightly encounters took place; the lists.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > lists or barriers
listc1386
champany?a1400
rangec1440
jousting-place1480
tilt?1507
tilt-yard1528
barracec1540
barrier1581
careera1586
steccado1600
tilting-yard1606
tilting ground1850
tilting field1859
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xii. iv. f. 173v/2 Quhen thir theuis war enterit in barras (quhare yay suld haue fouchtin)..thay wer all takin be armit men.
1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados xii. xiv. 10 Bot we debait, suld this barres within With wappinnis kene.
1562 A. Scott New Yere Gift to Quene With scheild and speir To fecht in barrowis.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) We still speak of ‘a cock in a barrace,’ in allusion to a cock-pit.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 9 Will justify this cartel in knightly weapons, within the barrace.
5. Hence (perhaps confused with barrat n.): Hostility, contention, strife.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > [noun]
unthankc893
witherwardnessc897
witherOE
wrakea1023
ungrithlOE
feythhed1297
grill13..
ill1303
unfriendshipa1340
enmity?a1400
feuda1400
despitec1400
unkindnessc1400
ingratitude1477
barrace1488
disfriendship1493
hostility1531
dislovea1533
adversation1543
diskindness1596
disaffection1599
ill blood1624
disaffectedness1625
inimicalness1651
unfriendlinessa1684
animus1795
inimicality1797
virus1866
negativism1977
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 238 Me think we suld in barrat [v.r. barrace] mak thaim bow.
1603 Philotus cxliii. sig. F Is this ane plesant godlie lyfe, To be in barrace, sturt and stryfe.
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