mease

[人名] [英格兰人姓氏] 米斯取自父名, 来源于May↑1, 含义是“梅之子”(son of May)

词形变化

meases 复数 meases 三单 measing 现在分词 meased 过去式 meased 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.

    英国 过时 方言

    a mease of herrings

  2. 1.

    A mess, a mese: a meal.

    废旧
  3. 1.

    A dwelling or messuage.

    废旧

    William Raynshaw, of Hulme, in the county of Lancaster, complains that whereas Hamnett Bent was seised in his demesne as of fee of certain meases of land, meadow, and pasture with appurtenances in Hulme […]

  4. 1.

    Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).

    废旧

    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.: […]

v.
  1. 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; […]

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary