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单词 pennyland
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pennylandn.

Brit. /ˈpɛnɪland/, U.S. /ˈpɛniˌlænd/, Scottish English /ˈpɛnɪland/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, pennylands.
Forms: see penny n. and land n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: penny n., land n.1
Etymology: < penny n. + land n.1 Compare post-classical Latin denariata terrae land having the rental value of one penny (from 11th cent. in British sources; compare denariate n.), and perhaps also nummata terrae, nummata pennyworth of land (from 12th cent. in British sources), also in sense ‘land yielding an annual rent of one penny’ (in an undated medieval document cited in T. Madox Hist. & Antiq. Exch. Kings of England (1711) I. 155).
Chiefly Scottish. Now historical.
1. Land having the rental value of one penny. Chiefly Scottish with reference to land valued at a (usually large) specified number of pennies. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land worth specific amount per annum
pennylanda1300
pennyland1439
soudeec1450
pennyworth of land1499
penny1504
uris-land1534
uris-cop1609
librate1610
obolate1610
solidate1610
ure of land1774
ounceland1805
a1300 in W. H. Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae (1867) III. 134 (MED) Tenentes..Penilond ad vitam et ad voluntatem domini.
1539 in J. Bain & C. Rogers Glasgow Rental Bk. (1875) 67 James Noble is rentalit in tuenty penny land in Stobo lyand besyde the chemysse.
1657 Retour in T. Thomson Inquisitionum (1811) I. Dumfries §234 The 40 penny land of Moffat..E. 40d.
2. In Orkney, Caithness, and Shetland: a division of land on which a tax of one silver penny was owed to the overlord (probably originally the king of Norway), comprising one eighteenth of a urisland. Also: (in the Hebrides and parts of the western mainland) a similar division of land equal to one twentieth of a tirung or ounceland.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land worth specific amount per annum
pennylanda1300
pennyland1439
soudeec1450
pennyworth of land1499
penny1504
uris-land1534
uris-cop1609
librate1610
obolate1610
solidate1610
ure of land1774
ounceland1805
1299 in Orkney & Shetland Rec. 38 Mork gullz brendri með uelltu iorðu huert penings land.]
1439 in J. S. Clouston Rec. Earldom of Orkney (1914) 71 That..he had selit the charteris off the xij penny lande off Tollop to the forsaide Thomas.
1465 in Orkney & Shetland Rec. 48 Ane letter off..tak off thre pennyland off Stanbuster..maid to oure..man [etc.].
1534 in C. Innes Bk. Thanes Cawdor (1859) 160 The landis of the Errycht extending to v penne land with the glennis and pertinents of the samin togider with the a penne land of Glassormoyr.
1587 in D. Balfour Oppressions 16th Cent. Orkney & Zetland (1859) 95 The saids landis of Saba extending to nyne penyland.
1633 in Sc. Hist. Rev. 9 346 Auld writ on parchment grantit be one Johne of Arincrauche Lord of Knapadaill to ane Gilleaspeck Campbell Lord of Lochahaw of the lands of Arincraw and ane number of pennylandis.
1663 in J. B. Craven Church Life S. Ronaldshay & Burray (1911) 42 That the whole south parisch be calculated by the severall penny lands in ilk towne.
1731 A. Mackay Bk. Mackay (1906) 447 Each minister should have an equivalent of these acres and grass of one pennyland or £42 Scots rent.
1774 G. Gifford in G. Low Orkney (1879) 145 The term Pennyland in Orkney signifies simply quantity..in Schetland it likewise marks the quality, and according to the value of the land every Mark contains more or fewer Pennies.
1822 A. Peterkin Notes Orkney & Zetland 6 None of these pennylands, or other terms, indicate any definite extend of ground; and they are of different extent in different towns. But all the pennylands, marks or cowsworths in the same town are of equal extent.
1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 39 The penny-land of the smith.
1898 Shetland News 30 Apr. (E.D.D.) Shetland, as part of the earldom of Orkney, must have been originally divided into ounce and pennylands.
1923 Sc. Hist. Rev. 20 20 Originally the pennylands included the towmall land only and as the runrig lands grew up around this nucleus, they were at first regarded merely as an annex to the pennylands.
1988 D. M. Walker Legal Hist. Scotl. I. 36 The pennyland is found in a twelfth-century charter to Paisley Abbey of one penny in perpetuity from every house from which smoke issued.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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