ˈbairn-team north. dial.
Forms: 1 bearn- 3 bern-, barn-team, -tem, beren-tem, 4 barn-, barne-teem, 4–5 barn(e-tem(e, 4–6 -tyme, 5 -teame, 7 bairn-teme, 8 -time, 9 -teem; see also barm-team.
[f. bairn + team.]
Brood of children, offspring, family; posterity.
| c 885 K. ælfred Oros. i. xiv. 1 Fultumlease æt hiora bearn⁓teamum. c 1220 Hali Meid. 31 In breades wone brede ti barnteam. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3747 Chore was is bernteam. c 1300 Cursor M. 4828 We ar all a man barnteme [Fairf. MS. an monnes barneteme]. a 1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornt. MS. 57 Þe firste of þis foule barnetyme. c 1460 Towneley Myst. 212 Wepe nothyng for me Bot for ȝoure self and ȝoure barneteme. 1513 Douglas æneis XII. xiii. 134 Bair at a birth..that barntyme miserabill. 1637 Rutherford Lett. 105 (1862) I. 266 The fair flock and blessed bairn-teme of the first-born. 1786 Burns A Dream xi, Thae bonnie bairntime, Heav'n has lent. 1855 Whitby Gloss., Bairn-teems, troops of children. |