laithとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

laith (plural laiths)

1. (dialectal, rare, Northern England) shed, barn
   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter II, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

     “What are ye for?” he shouted. “T’ maister’s down i’ t’ fowld. Go round by th’ end o’ t’ laith, if ye went to spake to him.”

   • 2000, Eileen White, editor, Feeding a City: York: The Provision of Food from Roman Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 135:

     Six quarters of wheat were held at Thomas Roger's house, and in laiths outside Bootham and Micklegate Bar he had store of wheat, rye, barley, beans and peas, totalling £21 6s 8d which represented about a quarter of his assets.

アナグラム

• thali, Litha, Lahti, lathi, tahil, thial, Thali, tahli