单词 | shireman |
释义 | shiremann. Obsolete exc. dialect (in sense 2). 1. Anglo-Saxon Law. A sheriff. (Erroneously explained by Lambarde as = ealdorman n. 1).In Old English the word had also the sense of ‘holder of official charge’, ‘bailiff’, ‘steward’ (rendering Latin præpositus, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > sheriff or high sheriff shiremanc1020 sheriffc1034 viscount1387 shire-reeve14.. high sheriff1450 c1020 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 9/29 Æðelwine scirman. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 343 Oure Elders before the conquest, had their trialles for title of land, and other controuersies, in each shire, before a Judge, then called Alderman, or Shyreman. 2. An inhabitant of the ‘shires’ (see shire n. 6). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of a district or parish > [noun] parishen?c1225 parishioner1462 provinciala1475 hundreder1501 parochian1502 local1591 confiner1595 palatine1610 provincialist1656 shiremana1825 dozener- a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Shere Aye, I knew he must be a shere-man by his tongue. 1874 Q. Rev. Oct. 494 To this day also, an East Anglian talks, not without a shade of contempt, of an inhabitant of another county as a sheeres man. 1909 A. Morrison Green Ginger 155 [Essex speaker] But a shire man allus was a fool. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1020 |
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