单词 | brecham |
释义 | brechamn. Scottish. The collar of a draught-horse. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > collar barghama1300 hambargh13.. oxbowa1325 collarc1440 horse-collarc1440 neck-collar1549 brecham?1553 gorget1629 check-collar1875 ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 426 in Shorter Poems (1967) 34 Raw silk brechamys [1579 Edinb. brechamis] ouyr thair halsys hyngis. 1566 Inventories 171 (Jam.) Auld brechomes and hernes. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 67 A sort of brecham about their necks. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 395 The straw brecham is supplanted by the leather collar. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 125 Ye have set yoursell down on the very brecham that wants stitching. 1883 Glasgow Her. 8 Sept. 3/2 A collar which rises high and stiff at the back of his neck resembling somewhat a horse's ‘brecham’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1553 |
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