mease

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring. UK,dated,dialectal
    — a mease of herrings
  2. A mess, a mese: a meal. obsolete
    — I want my mease of milk when I go to my work.
  3. A dwelling or messuage. obsolete
    — 1628, July 15, was a Gild new erected by four young bachelors of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases of persons, and the poor then well relieved.
  4. Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net). alt-of,obsolete
    — In the records of the series of trials which began soon afterwards, the following interesting description of a Mount's Bay seine in the seventeenth century is given: "Saynes are very long and deep nets, of a close or narrow mease, and lengthened at each end by sleeves of a larger mease, and are used in this anner, viz.: […]
动词 v.
  1. To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
    — ( […] and except also fish meased in the sleeves of certain nets, called seynes), of which no tithes are demanded; […]

词形变化

meases plural meases plural meases plural meases plural meases present,singular,third-person measing participle,present meased participle,past meased past

词源

词源 1
The English Dialect Dictionary suggests Old Norse meiss (“wooden box, as would be used for counting fish”) as a source; The Century Dictionary suggests that the term comes via Old French from a Latin word *mesa (“barrel”). One can also compare German Mass (“measure”) and indeed measure itself.
词源 2
Variant of mess / mese.
词源 3
Presumably related to messuage.
词源 4
From mesh?
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