| 释义 |
shrave local.|ʃreɪv|
(See quots.) Hence shrav(e)y a.
1793A. Young Agric. Sussex 12 This land is provincially called Shravey, stoney, or gravelly. 1850Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. i. 81 Shravy land, flinty and gravelly. 1858Ibid. XIX. i. 187 The subsoil varies from a stiff yellow clay to what is called shrave, which consists of innumerable fragments of flaky pieces of mixed clay and sand. |