endware

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hamlet or township; a small settlement or locality. Early,Essex,Modern,Northwestern,rare
    — To the poor people 6s. 8d. to be paid to the churchwardens to distribute to 40 of the poorest householders at their discretion, only 'this endware to be none of them' [sic].

词形变化

endwares plural

词源

Inherited from Middle English *endeware, from Old English *endeware (literally “village people”), from ende (“end, extremity”) + -ware (“inhabitants”), metonymically extended from the inhabitants of a settlement to the settlement itself. Compare endship for a similar formation.
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