单词 | to live at hack and manger |
释义 | > as lemmasto live at hack and manger 1. Chiefly Scottish. A rack to hold fodder for cattle or other animals (now rare). Frequently figurative in †to live at hack and manger: to live in plenty, to live the good life (obsolete).Cf. heck n.1 3, hake n.3 2, hatch n.1 4. Cf. also rack n.4 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > fodder rack cribOE hatchlOE cratch?c1225 rack1343 mangerc1350 heckc1420 hake1551 stand heck1570 hack1612 meat rack1744 hay-rack1825 1612 Inventorye of G. Beswick 1 Oct. in P. C. D. Brears Yorks. Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 71 Item in the stable and oxen house a servant bedd hacke & manger. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 23 A Hack, Lincolns,..Fæni conditorium, seu Præsepe cancellatum signat; a Rack. 1753 W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. i. i. 13/1 Furnish their Stables with Hack and Manger. 1795 in J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth (1799) 543 A small hack full of fine hay. 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. ii. 20 The servants at Lochmarlie must be living at hack and manger. 1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 9 Dec. (1939) 36 [She] lived with half the gay world at hack and manger. 1845 H. Beveridge tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. II. viii. 277 Refractory horses,..if kept idle for a few days at hack and manger, become ungovernable. 1906 Atlantic Monthly May 656/1 The wiles of an impecunious traveler who succeeds in living at hack and manger. 1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 255 Hay rack (in byre, etc.), [Stirling, Lanark, Northumberland]Hack, [Kirkcudbright] Hay hack. < as lemmas |
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