英语词汇“to drive for rent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†d. intransitive. Chiefly in to drive for rent: to round up and impound a tenant's cattle as a means of recovering rent owed to a landlord, the animals being kept until the rent is paid, or sold to raise money. Also transitive: to cause (cattle) to be impounded in this way. Obsolete.

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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (intransitive)] > seize goods for debt > drive cattle to pound

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a1658 J. Cleveland On Inundation of River Trent in Wks. (1687) 294 Then thought on's Lanlord, whom he fears hath sent His Water-Bayliff thus to drive for Rent.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. v. 82 My steward talks of driving for the rent.

1829 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 21 655/1 They see their cattle driven for rent once a year.

1845 Evid. Commissioners Law & Pract. Occup. Land Ireland: Pt. II 184 in Parl. Papers XX. 1 In some cases I have known 2s. 6d. charged for each head of cattle driven, and in others only 1s.

1868 W. R. Trench Realities Irish Life vi. 82 It was determined at head-quarters that I and the bailiffs should go out in a body and ‘drive for rent’.

单词	to drive for rent
释义	> as lemmas to drive for rent †d. intransitive. Chiefly in to drive for rent: to round up and impound a tenant's cattle as a means of recovering rent owed to a landlord, the animals being kept until the rent is paid, or sold to raise money. Also transitive: to cause (cattle) to be impounded in this way. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (intransitive)] > seize goods for debt > drive cattle to pound to drive for renta1658 a1658 J. Cleveland On Inundation of River Trent in Wks. (1687) 294 Then thought on's Lanlord, whom he fears hath sent His Water-Bayliff thus to drive for Rent. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. v. 82 My steward talks of driving for the rent. 1829 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 21 655/1 They see their cattle driven for rent once a year. 1845 Evid. Commissioners Law & Pract. Occup. Land Ireland: Pt. II 184 in Parl. Papers XX. 1 In some cases I have known 2s. 6d. charged for each head of cattle driven, and in others only 1s. 1868 W. R. Trench Realities Irish Life vi. 82 It was determined at head-quarters that I and the bailiffs should go out in a body and ‘drive for rent’. extracted from drivev. < as lemmas
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