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单词 cantref
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cantrefn.

Forms: Also cantrev, dialect canthrif.
Etymology: < Welsh cant hundred + tref town, place.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcantref.
= cantred n.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > hundred
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cantreda1387
cantref1606
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1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xciii. 375 Wales, that had neere as many Kings as Cantrefes in times past.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Cantred or rather Cantref signifies an hundred villages.
1847 Nat. Cycl. I. 738 The county of Anglesey is divided into three cantrefs.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘I'll whallop the whooal canthrif’, i.e. fight the entire lot.
1887 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 75 12,800 erwr [= acres] formed the territorial division called a cymwd and about double that number a cantrev.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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