单词 | wain-rope |
释义 | wain-ropen. Obsolete or archaic. (a) A rope used as a trace for drawing a wain. Cf. cart-rope n. at cart n. Compounds 1. (b) A rope used for binding or securing a load on a wain. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces tracec1350 side rope1370 wain-rope1371 trace14.. soam1404 pintrace1440 side-trace1445 wain-string1464 theats1496 treat1611 trek-tow1822 trace-chain1844 tug-strap1882 trek-rope1883 trace-rope1900 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > by cart > rope or strap used for securing load wain-rope1371 1371 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 129 ij waynraps novi. 1441–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 79 Item in 2 Waynrapes et 4 helteres empt., 12d. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iiiv And or he shall lode his corne, he must haue a wayne a copyoke, a payre of sleues, a wayne rope, & a pycforke. 1581 Inv. in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 10 40 Item Waine Ropes, xvj d. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 57 I thinke Oxen and waine-ropes cannot hale them together. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1371 |
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