粟ぞく

noun

millet; grain

Obsolete term for millet or grain. In modern Japanese, 粟 is normally read あわ. This reading ぞく is found only in old texts.

See also: 粟 (あわ)

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは、粟ぞくを「ぞく」と読よむことがある。

  In old documents, 粟 is sometimes read as ぞく.

noun

stipend in rice

Archaic term for a stipend paid in rice, used in historical contexts such as samurai stipends.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、武ぶ士しに粟ぞくとして米こめが支し給きゅうされた。

  In the Edo period, samurai were given rice as a stipend called ぞく.

noun

10,000th of a shaku

A very small unit of length, one ten-thousandth of a 尺 (shaku). This is a technical historical measurement term.

See also: 尺 (しゃく)

• 尺しゃくの一いち万まん分ぶんの一いちを「粟ぞく」と呼よんだ。

  One ten-thousandth of a shaku was called ぞく.