单词 | tath |
释义 | tathtathen. Scottish and dialect. 1. a. The dung of cattle, sheep, etc. left for manure on land on which they have been pastured. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > dung dungOE muckc1268 dunging?1440 fimea1475 fulyiec1480 tath1492 soil1607 street soil1607 dung-water1608 soiling1610 mucking1611 short dung, manure, muck1618 folding1626 muck water1626 stable manure1629 long dung1658 spit-dunga1671 stercoration1694 street dirt1694 horse-litter1721 pot-dunga1722 sock1790 street manure1793 police manure1825 fold-manure1829 slurry1965 1492 Act. Dom. Conc. (1839) 289/2 Þe saidis personis sall content & pay..for þe wanting of þe tatht & fulȝe of þe said nolt & scheip. 1545 Acct. in Paston Lett. VIII. (B.M.) Itm. for the tathe of ccvj Shepe at Beekham, due att Mydde~somer..lxvj s. vj d. 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xviii. 35/1 These Heaths by the Compasture of the sheepe (which wee call Tathe) are made so rich [etc.]. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 i. 100 To mix the teath with the soil. 1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 534 [Geese] eat far cleaner than sheep, and, in fact, leave nothing but their ‘taith’, which answers admirably as a preparation for the next wheat-crop. b. (See quot. 1701.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights pannage1392 commonc1405 stint1437 agistmenta1450 intercommon1449 commonty1466 foggage1471 communitya1475 gist1493 commoning?a1509 arrentationc1540 wether gang1561 browsage1570 pasturage1572 feed1575 intercommoner1581 frankfold1609 broouage1610 fellow commoner1612 horsegate1619 frankfoldage1628 shack1629 tatha1641 retropannage1679 levancy and couchancya1691 commonance1701 stinter1701 horse-lease1721 stray1736 goose-gate1739 commonage1792 twinter1846 couchance1886 levance1886 sheep-stray1891 stintholder1894 a1641 H. Spelman Icenia in Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ (1698) 162 Stercorationem Tath..appellant. 1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. Ggg1v Tath, in Norfolk and Suffolk, the Lord of each Mannor had the Privilege of having their Tenants Flocks of Sheep brought at Night upon their own Demesne Ground, there to be foulded for the benefit of their Dung, which liberty of so improving their Land is called Tath. 2. transferred. Rich or rank grass growing where the land has been manured in this way, or, by extension, where it has been flooded ( water-tath). ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > cultivated or for pasture pasturea1400 fogc1400 vesture1455 vestiturec1460 pasturagea1522 feed1580 agistment1598 pasture grass1628 ear-grass1686 artificial grass1733 seeds1794 tath1807 green stuff1895 1807 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 3 468 All grasses which are remarkably rank and luxuriant, are called tath, by the stock farmers, who distinguish two kinds of it; water tath, proceeding from excess of moisture, and nolt tath, the produce of dung. 3. sea-tath n. a sea-bottom covered with sediment. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > sea bed > covered with mud sea-tath1796 1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 70 Oysters are found on a strong clay bottom, on rocks and stones, and sometimes, though but thinly, in what is called by the fishers sea tathe. These last are of a very inferior quality. Compounds tath-field n. = tath-fold n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > other fields broom-fieldc1314 summer field1597 roughet1616 share acre1641 work field1684 town park1701 tath-field1753 town1822 gas field1833 summer country1860 broom-croft1871 infield1875 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > manured land tath-field1753 tath-fold1825 1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Aug. 394/1 They were harrowing the tath-field. 1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIV. 143 The spots thus manured are called tath-fields. tath-fold n. a field or fold in which cattle or sheep are confined in order to manure it. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > manured land tath-field1753 tath-fold1825 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Tath-faud, a fold in which cattle are shut up during night, for the purpose of manuring the ground with their dung. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : † tatetathn.2 also refers to : tathetathv. < n.1492 see also |
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