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单词 thistle-tack
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thistle-tackn.

Etymology: Origin obscure: connection with thistle n. is doubtful; the second element is tack n.2The following accounts of the term are given by 17th cent. writers:1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 308/1 If any Native or Cottager [at Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire] having a Swine above a year old, should kill him, he was to give the Lord 1d. and it was called Thisteltak.1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Thistle-take,..a Custom in the honor of Halton,..That if in driving Beasts over the Common, the Driver permits them to graze or take but a Thistle, he shall pay a half-peny a Beast to the Lord of the Fee.1906 N. J. Hone Manor 112 ‘Thistle-take’ was claimed by the lords [of Manors] in Lancashire and Yorkshire, as an acknowledgment of the hasty crop taken by droves of beasts passing over a common, and similar payments. (The statement in quot. 1691 (whence in 1906) was evidently ‘popular etymology’.)
Obsolete exc. Historical.
The name in some localities of a due levied upon the owners of pigs by the lord of the manor, as a charge for pannage. Cf. quot. 1523 for tack-swine n. in tack n.2 Compounds.
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tack-money1688
1303–5 York Vac. Roll (Ministers Accts. P.R.O. 1144/1) Et de xs. vijd. de operibus custumariorum..cum pannagio quod dicitur thistiltak.
1327 Inquis. Death Thomas Earl Lancaster (P.R.O.: I.P.M. Edw. III) File 6 m. 3 [Yorks., Soureby] Et de quadam consuetudine porcorum ibidem vocata Thistletack ad terminum Sancti Andree xviij d.
1377 Halymote of Halton, etc. (Court Rolls 50 Edw. III, Bundle 2. No. 27 ) Et de iij s collectis de pannagio vocato Thistletak pro porcis diversorum tenencium domini apud Runkorn.
1419 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/131/14) (Forest of Galtres, Yorks.) Sed de Thistiltak nichil quia nullum tale proficuum accidit hoc anno.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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