 | John Yonge Akerman - English language - 1842 - 88 pages
...tree, anything made of elder. Elmin. Made of elm, "an chain tree." Empt. To empty, to pour out. Eo w. An ewe. AS Eap, or Eopa. " An eldern stake and black-thorn...same size. Both these words are from the Anglo-Saxon, E8ep and Ebop. E11l e. A nettle. Evet, or Effet. An eft. AS Epeca, Epece. F. Faggot. A trimmed bundle... | |
 | William Douglas Parish - English language - 1875 - 200 pages
...ether, tdor."] A hedge. A piece of pliant underwood, wound between the stakes of a newmade hedge. " An eldern stake and blackthorn ether Will make a hedge to last for ever." EvED-AND-L1MBED, «. "He eyed and limbed me" means, he ' anathematized my eyes and limbs. FAD. A whim.... | |
 | William Douglas Parish - English language - 1875 - 172 pages
...ether, edor.~\ A hedge. A piece of pliant underwood, wound between the stakes of a newmade hedge. " An eldern stake and blackthorn ether Will make a hedge to last for ever." EYED-AND-LIMBED, m. "He eyed and limbed me" means, he anathematized my eyes and limbs. FAD. A whim.... | |
 | W. D. PARISH - 1877 - 482 pages
...tdor.~] A hedge. A piece of pliant underwood, wound between the stakes of a newmade hedge. " An eldem stake and blackthorn ether Will make a hedge to last for ever." EYED-AND-LIMBED, m. "He eyed and limbed me" means, he anathematized my eyes and limbs. FAD. A whim.... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1880 - 348 pages
...Akerman adds—" They have a rhyme in Wilts, on the formation of a ' stake and ether hedge ' — ' An eldern stake and black-thorn ether Will make a hedge to last for ever.' They say that an elder-stake will last in the ground longer than an iron bar of the same size." From AS «for. fEttle,... | |
 | rev. w.w. sjeat - 1880 - 360 pages
...Words. Akennan adds—" They have a rhyme in Wilts, on the formation of a ' stake and ether hedge' —' An eldern stake and black-thorn ether Will make a hedge to last for ever.' They say that an elder-stake will last in the ground longer than an iron bar of the same size." From AS edor. fEttle,... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Proverbs, English - 1882 - 586 pages
...Popular Antiq. of Great Britain, 1870, i. 95. An egg will be in three bellies in twenty-four hours. An eldern stake and blackthorn ether, •will make a hedge to last for ever. Wilts. Ether = Hedge.—Akerman's Wilts. Gloss, p. 18. " Theysay," observes Mr. A., " that an elder-stake... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk songs, English - 1892 - 590 pages
...byre full of kye. Byre, byar, or byer = a house in wh'ich cows are bound up. IT. 14. ELDER STAKE, ETC. An eldern stake and blackthorn ether, Will make a hedge to last for ever. Sussex. CM. 40. Or— Made a hedge for years together. Berkshire. AD. 78. The saying is also known... | |
 | Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 616 pages
...byre full of kye. Byre, byar, or byer = a house in which cows are bound uf TS. 14. ELDER STAKE, ETC. An eldern stake and blackthorn ether, Will make a hedge to last for ever. Sussex. CM. 40. Or— Made a hedge for years together. Berkshire. AD. 78. The saying is also known... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 584 pages
...a byre full of kye. Byre, byar, or byer = a house in which cows are bound up. N. 14ELDER STAKE, ETC An eldern stake and blackthorn ether, Will make a hedge to last for ever. Sussex. CM. 40. Or— Made a hedge for years together. Berkshire. AD. 78. The saying is also known... | |
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An eldern stake and black-thorn ether, Will make a hedge to last for ever." They say that an elder stake will last in the ground longer than an iron bar of the same size. Both these words are from the Anglo-Saxon, 
