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单词 wayour
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wayourn.

Forms: early Middle English wayhore, early Middle English wayhur, Middle English waier, Middle English waiur, Middle English wayere, Middle English wayhour, Middle English wayir, Middle English wayor, Middle English wayour, Middle English wayowre, Middle English wayȝowre, Middle English–1500s wayer, Middle English–1500s wayre. N.E.D. (1926) also records a form late Middle English wayr.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French wayour.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman wayour, waier pond for washing and watering horses (13th cent. or earlier), apparently < Anglo-Norman waier , waer and Middle French gaer to bathe (a horse) in a shallow pond or stream (13th cent. or earlier; French guéer ; < Middle French wew , gue shallow body of water, ford, pond (c1100 in Old French; French gué ) < classical Latin vadum : see vade n.) + -our -our suffix. Compare also Anglo-Norman wayur person who leads a horse to be watered (13th cent. or earlier) and (later) Middle French gayoir place for washing horses (1542).With reference to artificial fishponds (e.g. quot. 1530) perhaps influenced by Dutch wijer (now rare; Middle Dutch wier ), German Weiher (Old High German wīwari , wīari , Middle High German wīwer , wīer ), both originally in sense ‘(artificial) fishpond’ (now also ‘pond more generally’) < classical Latin vivārium vivarium n.; compare ( < Dutch) Middle French (northern) wier , wer , war artificial fishpond. With forms in -er compare -er suffix2. Not connected etymologically with weir n.
Obsolete.
A pond for watering and washing horses; (more generally) a pond for bathing, fishing, etc.Attested earliest in a surname.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > pond for washing or watering
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1296 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1976) 374 (MED) Henry ate Wayhore.
1310 Bridgewater Corporation (MS 833) Sicut itur versus le West Wayhur.
1374 Bridgewater Corporation (MS 488) (MED) [Iacentem in le longheyys eiusdem ville versus] le Wayere.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 513 Wayowre, stondynge watyr, piscina.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 11186 Mighte men se þe ladies lede Many fair palfray..in wayers to watre & wasche, Syþen to wype, & to mangers teye.
c1450 Contin. Lydgate's Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 1877 (MED) Off slepyng wayours watrys incertayn, Salt, bittir, and fumous.
1488 Maldon (Essex) Liber B f. 39 They come to the townes ende at the wayour.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 286/1 Wayre where water is holde, gort.
1570 in F. G. Emmison Elizabethan Life (1976) III. 285 Puteo anglice his wayer to Lockehatch corner at Epping.
1674 J. Patrick Refl. Devotions Rom. Church 347 The Byshop of the Temple let make a wayre in the same place thereas the tree laye, to washe in shepe that were offred to the Temple.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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