| 单词 |
lowy |
| 释义 |
lowy Obs. exc. Hist. [a. OF. louee, lieuee:—late L. leucāta, f. leuca (F. lieue) league n.1] A liberty extending for about a league outside a town.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent 329 Round about the Towne of Tunbridge, lyeth a territorie, or compasse of ground, commonly called, the Lowy, but written in the auncient Recordes and Histories Leucata [printed peucata] or Leuga, and being (in deede) a French League of ground. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 18 The Port of Hastings ought to finde three ships. The lowie of Peuensey, one. 1780Descr. Tunbridge-Wells 39 Great Bounds..was so called, because it was the extreme boundary of the lowy or liberty of Tunbridge. 1809Bawdwen Domesday Bk. 257 In Ripon the Archbishop has the Lowy of St. Wilfrid. 1880R. C. Jenkins Canterbury 170 Gilbert de Clare did homage for the Castle and lowy of Tonbridge. |
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