Chiefly Agriculture. A raised strip of arable land, usually one of a series, separated by furrows, into which a field is divided. Cf. land, n.1 7.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > divisions of ploughed land (13) ridgeOE Chiefly Agriculture. A raised strip of arable land, usually one of a series, separated by furrows, into which a field is divided. Cf. land, n.1 7. butt1304 A raised strip of cultivated land between two furrows, a ridge. Also: a measure of land equivalent to this in size. Now British regional. landc1400 One of the strips into which a cornfield, or a pasture-field that has been ploughed, is divided by water-furrows. Often taken as a measure of… rig1428 Agriculture. A raised strip of arable land sloping gradually towards furrows on either side, usually one of a series into which a field is divided… sheth1431 ‘A group of parallel rows which stand at right angles to similar and adjoining or intersecting rows’ (No… Agriculture. (See quot. 1894.) shed1473 Scottish. ‘A portion of land, as distinguished from that which is adjacent’ (Jamieson); a division of land larger than the ‘rig’. ? Obsolete. (Cf… stitch1493 A ridge or balk of land; esp. a strip of ploughed land between two water-furrows; also, a narrow ridge in which potatoes, etc. are grown. loon1611 = land, n.1 7. furlong1660 = land, n.1 (See quot. 1893.) Obsolete exc. dialect. size-land1744 a narrow strip of ploughed land. slit1775 Agriculture. A part of a field which has been ‘split’ in ploughing. rare. kench1799 A strip or slice of an arable field containing a number of furrows. stimpart1896 transferred. The fourth part of a ‘rig’ or ridge of land (yielding a quarter of a peck of flax seed). |
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