“shireman”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

shireman

释义

ˈshireman Obs. exc. dial. (in sense 2).
[OE. scírman, scíreman: see shire n., and man.]
1. O.E. Law. A sheriff. (Erroneously explained by Lambarde as = ealdorman).
In OE. the word had also the sense of ‘holder of official charge’, ‘bailiff’, ‘steward’ (rendering L. præpositus, etc.).
c1020in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 9/29 æðelwine scirman.1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent 343 Oure Elders before the conquest, had their trialles for title of land, and other controuersies in each shire, before a Judge, then called Alderman, or Shyreman.
2. An inhabitant of the ‘shires’ (see shire n. 6).
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia II. 296 Aye, I knew he must be a shere-man by his tongue.1874Q. Rev. Oct. 494 To this day also, an East Anglian talks, not without a shade of contempt, of an inhabitant of another county as a sheeres man.1909A. Morrison Green Ginger 155 [Essex speaker] ‘But a shire man allus was a fool’.

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