单词 | farmed |
释义 | farmedadj. 1. Of a tax, toll, land, etc.: that is leased in return for a regular fixed payment. Now rare and historical. ΚΠ 1618 H. Ainsworth Annot. Third Bk. Moses, called Leuiticus (Lev. xxvii. 23) sig. Mm2/2 This redemption of purchased or farmed land, differed from the redemption of inheritances. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iii. 35 Knaves who..Can hire large Houses, and oppress the Poor By farm'd Excise. 1754 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneidos xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. (ed. 3) II. 445 A Stranger to the Levees of the Great, and in farmed land his father sowed. 1893 E. Everett-Green Maud Melville's Marriage ii. 38 Being a farmed tax, [the chimney tax]..was always ruthlessly exacted. 1985 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeology 71 (Reviews Suppl.) 64 Among individual documents of the Roman period, one concerns liturgical supervision of the farmed tax on beer. ΚΠ 1765 London Chron. 26–28 Mar. 299/1 There can be no kind of difference between a free man and a purchased slave, if the former, like the latter, is to wear out his abilities in ceaseless drudgery.., on no other view than that of being placed among the farmed poor in some parish workhouse in old age. 1849 C. Dickens in Examiner 20 Jan. 33/2 The farmed children were slumbering in the lap of peace and plenty. 1852 Rep. Mortality Cholera Eng. 228/2 Four deaths from cholera occurred in January at the Chateau Belle-vue or the ‘Wilderness’, an institution for farmed paupers. 1896 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Feb. 544/1 Were the Act of such a nature that women were compelled in all cases to register their houses when taking a child or children for hire it is certain that a large reduction would follow in the mortality of ‘farmed’ infants. 3. Of land: used for growing crops or raising animals; cultivated.Recorded earliest in well-farmed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated wroughtOE subact?1440 laboured1470 tilled1546 well-cultured1555 well-laboured1571 husbanded1578 toiled1578 well-husbanded1581 cultive1611 improved1617 cultivated1622 well-cultivated1650 manured1746 well-farmed1770 reduced1794 farmed1800 tillaged1854 tilthed1866 tame1887 1800 Ld. Somerville Syst. Board Agric. 171 We are told, in Kent's Report of Norfolk, a well-farmed corn county, that..the import of oats in that county alone exceeds its growth by 15,389 quarters. 1888 Daily News 11 Dec. 4/6 A drop of about 14 per cent. had occurred in labourers' wages over the farmed surface of England. 1922 Cornell Extension Bull. No. 55 349 Physical features, such as shape of farm,..streams, and swamps, often make it impossible to have all the farmed fields as large as the crop area and the rotation make desirable. 2018 @NFFNUK 9 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 8 July 2019) It is possible to have a productive and wildlife-rich farmed landscape, as demonstrated by many nature-friendly farmers. 4. Of a type of livestock, crop, meat, etc.: raised or cultivated, esp. commercially, rather than caught or gathered from the wild.This sense is used in the contexts of aquaculture and commercial mushroom growing, as well as traditional forms of agriculture.See also factory-farmed adj. at factory n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > cultivated or planted gentle?1440 plantedc1450 husbandly1550 tame1551 manured1562 domestical1578 sative1599 mild1601 cultivated1634 hortala1704 sativous1786 farmed1897 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [adjective] > reared reared1848 farm-raised1871 farmed1897 1897 Warwick (Queensland) Argus 21 Aug. If instead of the farmed rabbit we prefer the wild bunny, then, as all farmers, gamekeepers, and poachers well know, ferrets are indispensable. 1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking viii. 113 The brackish bayous and marshes are also ideal for oysters, wild or farmed. 2013 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 15 Mar. 16 Farmed salmon is utterly tasteless; its fat and flabby flesh would actually be grey if, before being killed, the fish were not pumped full of pink dye to emulate the natural hue of healthy wild salmon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1618 |
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