出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2010/01/31 00:14 UTC 版)
Earliest usage refers to the rights of commoners to gather firewood from the woods or forests of the landowners. They could only take dead wood from the forest floor, or any dead branches they could pull from the trees using a suitable tool, typically a hook (possibly a billhook または fagging hook) or a crook (possibly a shepherd's crook)- most likely for peasants who were not farmers to be a hooked branch or two that they could legitimately carry as walking sticks. Cutting of green wood using the billhook would have been a punishable offence, and would have lead to loss of rights to collect wood, or even death.....