单词 | tithe barn |
释义 | tithe barnn. A barn for storing the grain given to the parson as tithe. Now historical or referring to buildings formerly used for this purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > barn > types of tithe barn1543 tithing barn1659 corn-house1699 Dutch barn1742 staddle barn1794 bank barn1804 staddle granary1816 Pennsylvania barn1823 grain-barn1844 1543 T. Becon Inuectyue agenst Swearing f. xx At haruest, whan the tythe barnes are ful. 1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1894) I. 14 j teyth barne and a garth lyeng in Clyfton. 1643 J. Angier Lancashires Valley of Achor 18 Four or five Priests..and other great Papists, whom they had at hand in a tythe Barn. 1678 T. Ellwood Found. Tythes Shaken 444 With their great Tythe-Barns and other appurtenant Buildings. 1725 Act Enclosing & Dividing Common Fields Fangfosse cum Spittle & Scagglethorpe (Private Act 12 Geo. I) c. 5. 1 Which said Glebe-land, Tithes, and Tithe-barn..are concluded to be of the annual Value of Sixty-five Pounds at the most. 1796 Observer 26 June The Tythe Barn, in the parish of Great Witchingham, in Norfolk, was lately consumed by some incendiaries. 1858 C. M. Yonge Cameos xlv, in Monthly Packet Mar. 238 The tenth [sheaf] was..lodged in the rector's tithe-barn. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. i. 21 The tithe barns of an English village are..as admirable and as appropriate as the minster at Rheims. 1935 Sat. Rev. 27 Apr. 527/1 The old tythe barn was built of that Cotswold stone which takes the colour of the weather. 1969 Vogue (U.S.) Oct. 163/1 A vast sixteenth-century tithe barn transformed into a theatre. 2016 Blackmore Vale Mag. (Nexis) 21 Oct. 30 This wonderful, working engine will be outside the tithe barn at Tisbury for all to see. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1543 |
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