| 单词 | rig and rundale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrig and rundale a. A raised strip of arable land sloping gradually towards furrows on either side, usually one of a series into which a field is divided: (in early use) often bounded by patches of uncultivated land, (in later use) produced by ploughing up and down alternately. In Scottish use frequently as part of a runrig system (see runrig n. 2); also in rig and rundale. Cf. ridge and furrow at ridge n.1 5d.corn-, harvest-, lea-rig, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > divisions of ploughed land ridgeOE butt1304 landc1400 rig1428 sheth1431 shed1473 stitch1493 loon1611 furlong1660 size-land1744 slit1775 kench1799 stimpart1896 1428 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 521 Þai couth part it no rychtar na hym to hafe þe tane halfe & hym þe toþer ryndale be four rygges & four. c1450 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Bodl. Add.) i. l. 1151 (MED) Lete se the litel plough, the large also, The rigges [v.r. londes] forto enhance. 1468 in Descriptive Catal. Anc. Deeds (1902) IV. 343 John Copuldyk of Haryngton [Linconshire] squyer eschaunged with Thomas Kyme of Langton ij ryges ligyng in the east fyld of Langton. c1490 in E. Beveridge Burgh Rec. Dunfermline (1917) flyleaf And ij ryggis to the said Dauid. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. xiv. 96 Quhair thow thi riggis telis for to saw. 1567 in H. L. Gray Eng. Field Syst. (1915) vi. 208 [Once] every tenant had one rige, then the first did begyn to have his a ryge for his lot agayne, and so by rygge and ryge it was in every place devidit amonge them. 1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 729 Quhidder were it better..Till labour ane of them onlie,..Or in ilk steding teill ane Rig. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 69 Thistles with Corn grow on the Riggs, And Rogues may lurk among the Whiggs. 1683 in Sc. Hist. Rev. (1920) 17 19 His corns lyeing rigg in rendall with uther mens, and not planked. 1759 I. Fletcher Diary 24 Mar. (1994) 62 Sett out the riggs in Middle Close for ploughing. 1786 R. Burns Rigs o' Barley in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 14 I kiss'd her owre and owre again, Amang the rigs o' barley. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 398 [Shetland] The small farms..are parcelled out in discontiguous plots and run-rigg, termed here rigg and rendal. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 265 Dibbled in rigs and furrows like beans and potatoes. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 224/1 Ploughing..in lands or stitches, as they are called in England, and, in Scotland, riggs. 1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) xxxiii Mrs. Sage was glad indeed to see Betty Cork come up the rigs. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 194 There was Ewan with the horses, ploughing his first rig, bent over the shafts. 1975 Trans. Inst. Brit. Geogr. No. 64. 29 In addition to ‘runrig’ itself, one has ‘run-dale’, ‘rin-dale’, ‘rendal’, ‘rig’ and ‘rennal’, ‘run-ridge’, ‘run-shade’ and ‘stuck-run-ways’. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 16 Aug. 9 I fork off the road at Kirkhouse and head up into the rolling muirs and rigs and laws that separate the valleys of the Tweed and the Yarrow. < as lemmas |
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