| 单词 | to live at hake and manger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto live at hake and manger 2. Scottish. A rack to hold fodder for cattle or other animals. Also in †to live at hake and manger: to live in plenty, to live the good life (obsolete). Cf. hack n.4 1, heck n.1 3. 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 1551 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 158 That all maner of stabillaris..haue thair stabillis weill and sufficientlie furnist with haik and maynger. 1636 in W. Stevenson Presbyterie Bk. Kirkcaldie (1900) 102 Item for two dealls to be ane maunger, 18 sh. Item for ane trie to be ane haik, 15 sh. 1710 A. Grant Let. 17 June in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) II. 93 Lett there be boards betwixt the haick and the manger, that the dust may..not fall in the manger. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 109 At hake an' manger Jean an ye sall live. 1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 723/2 Hecks or Hakes (Lothians), sparred boxes for holding fodder for sheep. 1872 W. Philip It'll a' come Richt ii. 24 Like some men's wives that I see, that live at hake and manger an' flichter aboot ilka day like butterflees in silks and falderals. 1891 J. MacDonald Stephens's Bk. of Farm (ed. 4) III. 387/2 Haiks to be fitted over troughs in byres and in cattle-courts. 1908 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 20 166 He has always fresh hay in an iron-covered haik. 1955 Bulletin (Glasgow) 11 Jan. The farm worker clumping about in hob-nailed boots filling troughs with neeps and haiks with straw. 2015 J. Yeadon Telling Tales iv. 17 She [sc. a cow] tugs out straw from the wooden haiks. < as lemmas |
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