单词 | tithing shock |
释义 | > as lemmastithing shock ΚΠ 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 cvii. 362 Repeating the practice till there be thirty or forty tything brought together. 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 76 The general custom..is, to set up the sheafs in double rows, usually ten sheaves together, (provincially a tything) for the convenience of the tything-man. 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 265 Tithings, ten sheaves of wheat set up together in a double row. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Tithing,..a shock of ten sheaves, for convenience in tithe-taking. a1904 W. F. Shaw in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 167/1 [Kent] When it was the custom to take tithes in kind, a shock always consisted of ten sheaves, one of which belonged to the tithe-owner. Now the number of sheaves in a shock is uncertain but if I wanted ten sheaves I should say ‘a tithing shock’. < as lemmas |
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