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Old country and farming words : gleaned from agricultural books / by James Britten.
Van Pelt Library PE1702 .E5 no.30
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, James, 1846-1924.
- Series:
- English Dialect Society. Publications ; 30.
- [Publications] / English Dialect Society ; 30. [Series C. Original glossaries]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Dictionaries.
- Agriculture.
- English language--Provincialisms.
- English language.
- English language--Terms and phrases--Agriculture.
- English language--Terms and phrases.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 191 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vaduz : Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1965.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- From the "Modern Husbandman" (1750) and other works of William Ellis
- From "Observations in husbandry" / by Edward Lisle (1757)
- "Dictionarium Rusticum" / by J. W[orlidge] (1681)
- From "Annals of agriculture" (1784-1815)
- From the reports of the agricultural survey (1793-1813)
- Agricultural provincialisms. From Morton's "Cyclopedia of agriculture" (1863)
- Weights and measures. From the same
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- OCLC:
- 32824982
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