mease
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(UK, dated, dialectal)(UK, dialect, dated) A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
a mease of herrings
- 2.
(obsolete)A mess, a mese: a meal.
- 3.
(obsolete)A dwelling or messuage.
William Raynshaw, of Hulme, in the county of Lancaster, complains that whereas Hamnett Bent was seised in his demesne as of fee of certain meases of land, meadow, and pasture with appurtenances in Hulme […]
- 4.
(alt of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).
In the records of the series of trials which began soon afterwards, the following interesting description of a Mount's Bay seine in the seventeenth century is given: "Saynes are very long and deep nets, of a close or narrow mease, and lengthened at each end by sleeves of a larger mease, and are used in this anner, viz.: […]
Động từ
verb- 1.
To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
( […] and except also fish meased in the sleeves of certain nets, called seynes), of which no tithes are demanded; […]
Nguồn gốc từ
The English Dialect Dictionary suggests Old Norse meiss (wooden box, as would be used for counting fish) as a source; The Century Dictionary suggests that the term comes via Old French - from a Latin - word *mesa (barrel). One can also compare Mass measure and indeed measure itself.