| 单词 | stand-heck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstand-heck 3. A rack made with parallel spars to hold fodder, either fixed in a stable, or movable, so as to be placed in a field, cattle-yard, or sheep-fold ( stand-heck); = hack n.4 1, hatch n.1 4 at heck and manger: in comfortable circumstances, in plenty, ‘in clover’. Scottish and northern dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > fodder rack cribOE hatchlOE cratch?c1225 rack1343 mangerc1350 heckc1420 hake1551 stand heck1570 hack1612 meat rack1744 hay-rack1825 c1420 Anturs of Arth. 448 (Thornton) Haye hendly, heuyde in hekkes [v.r. haches] on hyghte. 1521 in Archæol. XVII. 203 A rowm..which I have orissed with Hek and Mangeor for xx horse. 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry ii. 13 The soyle of yong Cattell made in the Winter time by feeding at stand Heakes. 1663 Inventory Ld. J. Gordon's Furnit. in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright (1855) The stables all in order, with heck and manger. 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 99 The Rack or Heck as the common People call it. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xvi. 239 [He] maintained puir Davie at heck and manger maist feck o' his life. View more context for this quotation 1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. xxii. 237 Six stout horses..had been living at heck and manger. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Heck, a rack for fodder in a stable or field. < as lemmas |
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