| 单词 | farm belt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfarm belt farm belt n. originally and chiefly U.S. a region primarily dedicated to agriculture; spec. (with the and sometimes with capital initials) such a region in the Midwestern United States. ΚΠ 1890 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Pharos 20 Sept. The Canadian Pacific railroad..has leased the Wabash system... This will give our enterprising Canadian neighbors control of a line from Detroit through the southern farm belt to the southwest. 1912 Akron (Iowa) Reg.-Tribune 21 Mar. When the soil in the farm belt was new, when it was rich in all the essential plant food elements and free from weeds.., it mattered little how it was planted. 2013 K. Newman Secret Financial Life of Food viii. 177 The unexpected surge in demand, coinciding with a spell of bad weather in the Farm Belt, drove grain prices to historic heights. < as lemmas |
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