bowndとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bownd (plural bownds)

1. Obsolete spelling of bound.
   • 1670, court of Hartford, quoted by Charles Henry Stanley Davis in History of Wallingford; Chapter III, page #72:

     “  This Court haveing been moved to state the bownds of the New Village that is settled upon the playne as you goe to New Haven, doe grant that their bownds shall com from the Brook at the south end of the great playne, to the northward tenn miles, and from the said [Brook] sowthward to Brandford bownds, and on each side the river five miles, that is five miles on the east side and five miles on the west side the River, provided that the sayd village by carryed on and made a  plantation wout any relation or subordination to any other towne, and provided the bownds hereby granted to the sayd village doe not prejudice any bownds formerly granted to any planation or perticuler person, or doe not extend to the north any further than wh[ere] the old road to New Haven goeth over Pilgrimes Harbour.”