单词 | stintage |
释义 | stintagen. 1. a. = stinting n. 2.A spurious sense in N.E.D. (1917) based on an erroneous reading of stintinge in an earlier edition of the text cited in quot. a1642. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > common or unenclosed land > portion of furlong12.. dalec1241 dole1523 flat1523 stintagea1642 stintinga1642 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > systems of tenure stintagea1642 stintinga1642 take1794 tenantry1794 crofting1851 mezzadria1875 métayage1877 crofterization1907 crofterizing1908 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 122 In the middle field beyond Keldiegate where the flatte runnes out, that is called the stintinge, and that which is up towards the Spellowe heads is sayd to bee above the stintinge.] b. The allotment of ‘stints’. (Cf. stint n.1 6.) ΚΠ 1827 W. Parson & W. White Hist., Directory, & Gaz. Durham & Northumberland I. p. cvi All the freemen have the right..of stintage on the free commons. 1894 Carlisle Patriot 4 May 3/7 (Cumbld. Gloss.) The old herds were re~appointed for the summer stintage. 2. Ungenerous apportionment. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > niggardly stintage1882 1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 250 Thy mean penurious stintage O' earthly pleasure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1827 |
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