“scaffery”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

scaffery

释义

† scaffery Sc. Obs.
Also 6 skafrie, skaif(f)ry, 7 scafferie.
[f. scaff v.¹ or scaffer: see -ery.]
Extortion; extortionate taking of perquisites.
1555Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 500/1 The wemen perturbatouris for skafrie of money or otherwyse salbe [etc.].1561Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 335 Na skaiffry, sic as sampill and scheit schakin, to be tane thairof.1606Act of Council in Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 616/2 The with-gait and libertie grantit vnto Suche shamefull scafferie and extortioun.1634Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. ii. (1904) V. 186 For componing..with nombers of thame and taking of compositions frome thame..quilk is a foule coosening scafferie.a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scot. (Wodrow Soc.) III. 662 Lyke as the poorer sort in the burrowes sould not have escaped the importable scafferie intended.

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