单词 | earable |
释义 | earableadj. Now rare (archaic and regional). Capable of being ploughed; suitable or used for growing crops. Cf. arable adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > broken > arable arablec1400 earablea1450 labourable1481 ploughable1570 tillable1571 a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xx. l. 48 (MED) In þat place Is there non Erable lond. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 159 Good londe erable and fayr medowes plente. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. evi In felde or in errabull londe. 1517 Domesday Inclos. (1897) I. 220 viij acars of yerabyll lond in Wygbarow. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ereable, or rather arable lande. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie iii, in Annales 265 Their earable land they change by yeeres. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. vii. f. 53v If the Tenant conuert erable land into wood. c1666 in H. W. Richardson York Deeds (Maine) (1887) II. f. 64 Closes or Incloseuars of medow pastewars or Errable land. 1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 516 Earable, arabilis. 1710 W. Salmon Botanologia I. ccclix. 512/1 These Kinds of Bastard or Wild Hemp do all grow in moist Grounds as dry,..and especially on Earable Land. 1851 Notes & Queries 29 Mar. 252/1 A Yorkshireman, who has more Saxon than Latin in him, will not write ‘arable land’ but ‘earable land’. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 143 Earable, var. of ‘arable’. 1910 H. M. Doughty Chron. Theberton i. 2 The plough, I think, implied as much ‘earable’ land as a team of eight oxen and one plough could work in a twelve-month. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1450 |
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