| 单词 | stake and rice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstake(s) and rice stake(s) and rice: see stake (earlier †stakes) and rice at stake n.1 2a.extracted from ricen.1stake (earlier †stakes) and rice a. stake (earlier †stakes) and rice (rice n.1 2a) Scottish and northern: a fence, hurdle, or partition made with these materials; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > stake and brushwood fence stanty hedge1446 stake (earlier stakes) and rice1457 rice-dike1677 stake and band1805 1457 Sc. Acts Jas. II, §30 (1814) II. 51/2 Þt na man mak gardes nor heggis of dry staikes na Rys or stykis. 1471–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 644 Pro posicione del stakez et ryss. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vii. vi. f. 84v/2 To byg ye wal betuix Abircorne and Dunbritane with staik and ryse. 1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith iv. 63 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) On stake and ryce, hee knits the crooked vines, And snoddes their bowes. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 278 Hurdles, (vulgarly called stake and rice) may be made round the links. 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish vi. 70 The plantations supplied him with stabs to make stake and rice between his fields. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxv. 295 Giving his horse a good dig with his spurs, he lifted him over a stiff stake-and-rice fence. 2000 T. C. Smout Nature Contested ii. 49 There was an external enclosure maintained by the landowner, often of earth topped by stake and rice. < as lemmas |
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