单词 | roomstead |
释义 | roomsteadn. Now rare (English regional (Yorkshire)). A room, a compartment; (also) a certain area or space. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > defined or limited portion of space spacec1380 quantity?a1425 rooma1425 roomth1550 content1577 roomstead1600 canton1643 area1700 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided dealinga1300 divisionc1374 partc1392 spacec1392 long divisionc1400 severingc1400 skyvaldc1400 foddinga1425 panelc1450 partition1561 roomstead1600 canton1601 separation1604 share1643 scissurea1667 cutting1726 departmenta1735 segment1762 compartment1793 distribution1829 segregation1859 dept.1869 section1875 tmema1891 1600 in Yorks. Archaeol. Soc., Rec. Ser. (1962) 126 4 Every particuler doth show..what roomesteedes be in euery house, that waste hereafter may be preuented. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 49 The greate roomesteade in the North ende of the rye-barne helde all our Winter corne this yeare. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 49 As much as coulde possibly bee layd in that roomesteade. 1691 J. Gibson in Archaeologia 12 188 Dr. Uvedale of Enfield... His greens take up six or seven houses or roomsteads. 1718 in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. New Ser. 3 200 Benjamin Farish hath one firehouse containing two room steads..to lett. 1764 Skeffling Inclosure Act 9 The pieces, parts, or room~steads of the earth-bank. 1800 J. Tuke Gen. View Agric. N. Riding Yorks. (new ed.) 93 A roomstead (i.e. one post and two rails), being 1s. 7d. including carriage. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 461 The carpenters had completely cleared the roomstead. Note, Roomstead is the space between any two ribs or frames of timber in a ship. 1911 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk (ed. 2) Addendum 423 Rumstead, the space between two posts in ordinary post and rail fencing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600 |
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