单词 | start and overloup |
释义 | > as lemmasstart and overloup ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > leaping into adjoining pasture start and overloup1671 1671 in M. B. Johnston Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Deeds (1939) I. No. 89 The foirsaid six sheep sowmes grase with ane naig or ane meir and start and over leap of the hoggis. 1707 J. Lauder Decisions (1761) II. 408 If they [sc. cattle], in their transient passage, do any skaith by start and o'erloup. 1774 Scots Farmer 2 301 A neighbour of mine took the liberty of start and o'er-loup, as it is called, without allowing of which there is no living in good neighbourhood. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. i. 87 Some, yet bolder, made, either with their own domestics, or by associating themselves with the moss-troopers, in the language of shepherds, ‘a start and owerloup’. 1827 W. Scott Two Drovers in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xiv. 310 The cattle..subsisted themselves..sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a start and owerloup, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture. < as lemmas |
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