| 单词 | to muck the byre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto muck the byre a. A cow-house. Perhaps in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. to muck the byre (Scottish): to take out the dung and cleanse the byre. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle house byrea800 shipponc900 neat-house1440 oxhousea1475 fee-house1483 cow-house1530 neatery1647 cow-stable1648 mistal1673 hemel1717 bull-house1808 barn-cellar1842 tie-up1851 cow-shippon1859 bullock-shed1865 cow-shed1886 a800 Corpus Gl. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 32 Magalia, byre. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 185 Magalia, uel capanna, byre, uel sceapheorden. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aii The king faris with his folk our firthis and fellis..With outin beilding of blis of bern or of byre. 1521 in Archæol. XVII. 203 Ther is a bire made for oxen. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 420 Bayth hall and chalmer, bakhous, barne and byre. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miv/2 A Byre, cowhouse, bouile. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 76 I ha' a good ha' house, a barn and a byer. a1775 Jacobite Song ‘The mucking o' Geordie's byre.’ a1845 R. H. Barham Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 225 He had beeves in the byre, he had flocks in the fold. 1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude viii. 208 Long ere heat of noon, From byre or field the kine were brought. < as lemmas |
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