| 释义 | † barrace Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈbærəs|
Forms: 4–6 barres, -as, 5 -ais, -eys, (6 barrowis), 5–9 barrace.
[a. OF. barras, f. barre bar.]
1. A barrier or outwork in front of a fortress.
c1375Barbour Bruce iv. 96 Ysche thai wald And bargane at the barras [v.r. barrais] hald. 1380Sir Ferumb. 4679 Þanne come þe Sarzinz out And defendede þe barres al about. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 830 Off hewyn temyr in haist he gert thaim tak..and a stark barres mak. 1483Cath. Angl. 23 A Barras, antemurale. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxxv. 124 Rounde aboute this place he dyd make diches and barreys for to defende himselfe.
2. The bar of a tribunal; = bar n.1 22. rare.
1499Plumpton Corr. 142 This day was new barresses made in Westmynster hall, and thether was brought Therle of Warwek, and arrened.
3. A hindrance, obstruction, delay. rare.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xiii. iv, But I, whyche wel knowe this barras and whilis, toke wt me armes for squyres.
4. The enclosure within which knightly encounters took place; the lists.
1513Douglas æneis xii. xiv. 10 Bot we debait suld this barres wythin, With wapynnis kene. 1536Bellendene Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 261 Quhen thir thevis war enterit in barras, quhare thay suld have fouchtin. 1562A. Scott New Y. Gift to Quene, With scheild and speir To fecht in barrowis. 1808Jamieson s.v., We still speak of ‘a cock in a barrace,’ in allusion to a cock-pit. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xiii, Will justify this cartel in knightly weapons within the barrace.
5. Hence (perh. confused with barrat): Hostility, contention, strife.
c1470Henry Wallace ii. 238 Me think we suld in barrat [v.r. barrace] mak thaim bow. 1603Philotus cxliii, Is this ane plesant godlie lyfe, To be in barrace, sturt and stryfe. |
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