单词 | toll-dish |
释义 | toll-dishn. A dish or bowl of stated dimensions for measuring the toll of grain at a mill; a multure-dish. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring volume > measuring vessels > vessel of standard capacity > bowl for measuring grain or corn toll-hoopc1270 corn-dish1419 reasonc1450 multure dish?c1475 toll-dishc1580 dish1774 c1580 Merye Hist. Mylner Abyngton (new ed.) sig. A.ijv The mylner was so trewe and fele Of each mannes corne wolde he steale More than his Toledish [?1532–4 moiture] by a deale. c1592 Faire Em sig. A4v You are too fyne to be a Millers daughter: For if you should but stoope to take vp the tole dish You will haue the crampe in your finger At least ten weekes after. a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbb2 v/1 A Lord, a Miller? take your Toal-dish with ye. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 505 Corn Mills pay Tithes in Kind as Mills, which is the tenth Toll-dish. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Farnham The toll-dish here was once reckoned worth 200 l. a year. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xi. 228 The thieves..crying to their comrade, ‘Miller! beware thy toll-dish.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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