单词 | chaving |
释义 | chavingn. Now rare and English regional (Cheshire). 1. Usually in plural. Husks of grain or pulses; chaff; short pieces of straw. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > chaff or husks of grain grita700 chaffc1000 crapa1425 coralc1440 pug?1440 shelling1598 shood1601 ray1656 scufting1688 rubble1767 cosh1787 sheeling-seeds1802 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry ii. i. 117 Feede capons..with craps of Corne and the chauings of pulse. 1853 Farmer's Mag. Sept. 263/2 Mr. Hornsby's [machine] did not separate the chaff from the chavings or short straws. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 143 This straw's rotten; it'll knock aw to chavins. 2000 S. Davies Impassioned Clay 104 Sin is a bugaboo dreamed up by rich men to keep the poor in subjection & leave them the cheevings of the corn. 2. The activity of separating grain, etc., from chaff or short pieces of straw. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > freeing from chaff or straw cavinga1642 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvi. 179 By chaving of it with a narrow toothed Rake. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) iii. §4. 29 And winnowing or chaving. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 314/1 The man to carry, in a chaff skep, the cavings and chaff up, to be stacked in with the straw for better preservation for fodder, to assist in chaving, &c. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). > as lemmasˈchaving ˈchaving n. Π 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvi. 179 By chaving of it with a narrow toothed Rake. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) iii. §4. 29 And winnowing or chaving. < n.1614 as lemmas |
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