| 单词 |
borrow-head |
| 释义 |
† borrow-head1 Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈbɒrəʊhɛd|
[f. borrow n. 3 + head; cf. borsholder. The fuller form friðborhheved occurs in the (Latin) Laws of Edward the Confessor xx. Writers from the 16th c. onwards have often confounded borrow n. 3 with borough; hence the incorrect form borough-head, commonly adopted in dictionaries.]
Originally the head of a friðborh or tithing (see borrow n. 3); the word, with its synonyms borsholder, headborough, afterwards came to denote a parochial officer, now called a Petty Constable.
1581Lambarde Eiren. i. iii. (1602) 13 Borowhead, Borsholder and Tythingman, bee three severall names of one selfe same office and do signifie The chiefe man of the free pledges within that Borowe or Tything. 1613Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 336 The conseruator of peace..In a Tything [is called] a petie Constable, Borsholder, Head-Borough, Third-borough, Boroughhead, Tything-man, or Chiefe pledge. 1857Toulm. Smith Parish 121 Tything-man, borsholder, borrowhead, headborough, chief-pledge, or provost. |
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