| 单词 | rig length |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrig length rig length n. Scottish (now chiefly historical) the length of a rig (sense 6a); a measure of land equivalent to the size of this. Sc. National Dict. (at Rig) records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1968. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > narrow strip of land swathc1325 runrig1437 raina1450 selionc1450 rundale1474 quillet1533 rig length1616 plank1631 narrow land1640 rap1710 run-ridge1741 rean1781 slinget1790 slip1837 1616 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1891) 1st Ser. X. 499 Not a rig lenth or tua fra the said dure. 1759 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council I. 71 The Laird Ogilvie of Pitmowis hath incroached on the muir, by riving out and labouring two riggs length in breadth, and a quarter of a mile in length. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) iii. 138 That part of it..was divided into three shots, as they were called, or rigg lengths. 1867 W. Donaldson Queen Martyr 44 Here the burn was black an' big, An' me a rig length frae the brig! 1983 A. Gibb Glasgow ii. 29 A normal rig length was a furlong or c.200 metres. < as lemmas |
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