单词 | saeter |
释义 | saetern. 1. Shetland and Orkney. A meadow; a pasturage attached to a dwelling. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > meadow land > meadow > other meadows stank-meadowc1358 lot-mead1552 lot-meadow1605 saeter1795 shade1806 rodham1882 1795 Statist. Acc. Soc. XIV. 321 (note) As to our meadows, they are always called Seaters. 1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands I. 137 Many names of places..terminate in seter.] 1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 427 (note) In the ancient Shetland language, the green pasturage attached to a dwelling was named a Setter or Seater. 2. a. In Scandinavia: a mountain pasture where cattle remain during the summer months. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farm wick1086 vacherya1325 vaccary1471 dairy1562 dairy-farm1784 milk farm1794 saeter1799 vaccarage1895 1799 T. R. Malthus Diary 9 July (1966) 132 His cows are now gone to pasture on the mountains—to Saaters, as they seem to call it. 1841 H. Martineau Feats on Fiord vi. 161 The mountain pasture belonging to a farm is called its Seater. 1871 Harper's Mag. Jan. 169/1 Before the middle of June the flocks and herds are led out into the säter. 1882 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck Three in Norway 56 This sæter is in a most beautiful situation, perched on a little flat bit of ground on the mountain side. 1924 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 236 Part of a herd of sixty or seventy..had wandered down from the fjeld into the saether. 1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning ii. i The kind of thing by which in Norway the saeter hay is moved to the valley. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings ii. ii. 82 Increasingly the husbandman came to have his own upland grazing, his seter (seter, Swedish såter). Sometimes the seter was of a permanent nature. 2001 B. G. Boniface & C. Cooper Worldwide Destinations (ed. 3) xi. 127/1 Many of these [holiday chalets] are situated in the saeter,..and are a reminder of the pastoral life style of the past. b. A dairy or farm on such a pasture. ΚΠ 1850 T. Forester Norway 1848 & 1849 xviii. 383 Arrived at the long-talked of saeter, whose hospitable smoke we had seen far away down the valley. 1882 S. S. Cook Arctic Sunbeams xii. 168 It [sc. juniper] is sometimes boiled at the saeters,..and is ladled out as cow-tea! 1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 42 The angler taking up his quarters at a small farm or ‘saeter’. 1955 M. E. B. Banks Commando Climber vi. 106 The local farmer and his wife in a neighbouring saeter..always moved about their wooded farm on skis. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) viii. 250 Milking animals at saeters..was..confined to elevations below 1,300 feet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1795 |
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