| 单词 | plough money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplough money plough money n. (a) money paid for the right of ploughing (now historical); (b) money collected by ploughboys on Plough Monday (now chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of ploughing lessilverc1284 plough money1558 1558 in W. M. Lummis Churches of Bungay (1950) 36 Recd. of Elizabeth Rose, Widowe, on Palm Sondaie of the Plough Monye which remayned in her husband, his hands, 20s. a1613 G. Owen Baronia in Descr. Pembrokeshire (1892) i. xxiii. 195 Within Eglosserow onely..Arian Eredig, or Plowe monye, for right of ploughing. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. at Plow-Monday Next after Twelfth-day, when our Northern Plow-men beg Plow-money to drink. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 68 To obtain ‘plough-money’ for the evening dance or festivity. 1910 G. K. Chesterton What's Wrong with World (1913) i. x. 71 Taking from them [sc. their poorer countrymen] the plough money and spade money which they were doubtless too weak to guard. 2002 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 16 Mar. Medieval farm labourers would have pulled a plough round their local village asking for ploughmoney. < as lemmas |
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