单词 | corn-fodder |
释义 | > as lemmascorn-fodder corn-fodder n. U.S. Indian corn sown broad-cast and cut to serve as fodder; (see also quot. 1744). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > forage-crop podder1468 tare1482 farrage1601 corn-fodder1744 forage-crop1875 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Feb. vi. 39 Our Farmers, never fail to sow Hog-pease..for the great Service their Stalks do the Farmer, in supplying him with the best of Corn-fodder. 1772 Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. 14 288 We shall get in all our Corn Fother by the middle of next week. 1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 24 Farmers..estimate the corn fodder or stover upon an acre as equal to three fourths of a ton of English hay. 1904 M. E. Waller Wood-carver ii I can look..up the slope of the mountain, across the stony corn-fodder patch. < as lemmas |
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