单词 | culching |
释义 | culchingcultchingn. The practice of strewing an oyster bed with culch. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > breeding oysters > culching oyster-bed shelling1881 culching1894 1894 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 5/3 A Burnham cultching boat. 1904 Nature 17 Mar. 466/1 The process known as ‘culching’, that is, scattering the floor of the bed with rock, loose coral, and so on, to afford the necessary anchorage for the byssus of the young oyster. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1894 |
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