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单词 whittle-gait
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whittle-gait
whittle-gait n. (also whittle-gate) see quot. 1804.
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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > supplied to visiting clergyman
whittle-gait1804
1804 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. (1805) 144 In some parts of Cumberland..he not only receives quarter-pence, but is provided with victuals at the homes of his scholars, which he visits in succession. This whittle-gait (as it is called) subjects him however to the toil of travelling.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (at cited word) ‘An harden sark, a guse grassing, and a whittle gait’, were all the salary of a clergyman, not many years ago, in Cumberland.
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