| 单词 | staff-herd |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstaff-herd staff-herd v. now historical (transitive) to herd (sheep or other livestock) on to land in order to allow them to graze; to put (livestock) to graze, esp. on common land, under the charge of a shepherd or herder to keep them from straying; to graze (land) in this way; (also intransitive) to use this method of grazing livestock; cf. staff-drive vb. [Compare earlier staff-herd (noun) in the senses ‘payment for the right to or duty to graze in a certain way’ (1422 as stashurd (for stafhurd)), ‘herdsman in charge of animals grazing on common land’ (1510 as staf hird in Older Scots, 1530 as staffe herd in a Yorkshire source).] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > herd > pasture on common or forest staff-herd1563 staff-drive1566 1553 in R. B. Armstrong Hist. Liddesdale (1883) 41 If any inhabitants of either the said realms..depasture and feed with his cattel or sheep, or staffherd the same within the bounds of the other realm. 1563 in W. Nicolson Leges Marchiarum (1705) 138 If it shall happen the Cattel or Sheep of the one Realm to be staff-herded, or to remain depasturing upon the ground of the opposite Realm. 1595 in C. W. Hatfield Hist. Notices Doncaster (1866) I. 168 Doncaster time out of mind have made drives..and staff hearded upon the moor. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Staff hird, to have sheep under the care of a shepherd. 2000 A. J. L. Winchester Harvest of Hills v. 115/1 Westmorland men were said to have staff herded the moorland boundary between that county and the Yorkshire manor of Hunderthwaite. < as lemmas |
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