单词 | chock and log |
释义 | > as lemmaschock and log chock and log adj. (and n.) originally and chiefly Australian (now historical) designating a kind of fence built of horizontal logs supported by wooden blocks; (also as n.) a fence of this kind. ΚΠ 1862 Argus (Melbourne) 22 July 8/5 The two sides not having water frontage are chock and log fenced. 1863 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser 27 Mar. Tenders wanted for erecting five miles chock and log fence. 1879 Emigration to Tasmania 85 I think the ‘choc and log’ a better fence. 1917 Bull. (Sydney) 19 Apr. 24/4 I..found old Pat seated on the ‘chock an' log’. 1984 A. G. Noble Wood, Brick, & Stone II. 120/3 Chock-and-log fences..were common enough in the colonial period in the Hudson valley. 2005 Agric. Hist. 79 35 In the heavily forested Gippsland region of eastern Victoria, pioneer settlers used log or chock and log fences on the boundaries of their newly cleared farms. < as lemmas |
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