单词 | burley |
释义 | † burleyn.1 Obsolete. rare. ‘The butt end of a lance’ (Halliwell). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > lance > broad end of lance burley1548 reverse1819 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xij One company had the plackard, the rest, the port the burley, the tasses..all gylte. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). burleyn.2 Scottish and English regional (northern). = byrlaw n., used in combination burleyman n., burleybailie n. an officer of a byrlaw-court; see quot. 1879. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > appointed at court-leet byrlawman1432 byrlaw-grave1477 bylaw-man1590 burleybailie1750 burleyman1750 1599 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione (Jam.) Laws of Burlaw are maid & determined be consent of neichtbors..quhilk..ar commonly called Byrlaw-man.] 1750 C. Campbell in Stewart's Trial App. 146 I..think it's quite right to have burliemen..You will therefore appoint two discreet honest men for that purpose of the tenants; and..be sure you swear them to fidelity in their office. a1758 A. Ramsay Poems (1800) II. 536 Jude took him for a burlie-bailie. 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 108 Twelve young men, with such a number of the burliemen in town. 1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 62 Burly-man. 1879 Athenæum 26 July 115 Burleymen are still appointed at the Courts Leet and Courts Baron. Men of agricultural experience are always chosen, and their duty is to value damages, e.g. to crops from cattle straying. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). burleyn.3 U.S. An American tobacco, of which there are two varieties, red and white. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > other types of tobacco craccus1617 mavis1641 shoot-tobacco1666 funk1677 black tobacco1698 kite's-foot1788 dark leaf1829 bird's eye1834 bright leaf1834 honeydew tobacco1835 seed leaf1837 long-tails1839 honeydew1843 caporal1850 dogleg tobacco1856 dogleg1863 Boer1881 burley1881 black boy1898 snus1916 1881 Southern Planter in B. W. Arnold Tobacco Ind. (1897) 35 The White Burley produced in the west has now thoroughly substituted our dark grades. 1900 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 435 The White Burley is entirely air cured, except in exceedingly damp weather, when wood fires may be used. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 Feb. 5/2 From the Blue Grass also comes most of what is called the Burley, another fine quality, which is made into chewing tobacco for the American and German. 1952 Economist 29 Nov. Over 155,000 growers of burley tobacco voted on whether they wished to continue..price support for their 1953 crop. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.11548n.21750n.31881 |
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