单词 | farmery |
释义 | farmeryn. 1. A farmstead, a farmyard; the buildings, yards, etc., belonging to a farm. Now chiefly in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun] > farm-offices steading1472 farmery1656 farming office1770 farm office1778 1656 S. Holland Don Zara i. ii. 11 The first thing therefore debated on by our Don, was (as an Inquisitor) what food the Farmery afforded. 1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 81 The farmeries of Norfolk are,..large and convenient. 1851 I. J. Mechi 2nd Paper on Brit. Agric. 30 Our present ill-arranged farmeries. 1891 Daily News 2 July 8/1 A farmery and three cottages. 1986 Garden Hist. 14 74 The farmery at Highbury was situated on the eastern boundary of the estate and was initially visible from the house. 2. Farming, agriculture; the business or practice of growing crops, rearing livestock, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] tiltha1100 husbandrya1398 agriculture?1440 tillagea1538 tilture1573 farming1642 gainery1670 farmery1759 terraculture1847 ag1905 1759 Apol. for Whisky 8 Most part of the art and dexterity of farmery, consists in dressing and preparing the ground for barley. 1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 12 579 A rustic and rusticating fashion for farmery. 1960 C. J. M. A. van Rooy in Proc. 1st European Poultry Conf. In those years poultry-raising still had to prove its economic value as part of farmery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). farmeryadj. Farmer-like; characteristic or suggestive of a farmer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] > peasant or rustic churlisha1000 upland14.. rustical?a1475 ruric1488 rusticate?a1505 rural1513 upalands1535 clownish1570 rustic1582 clownical1614 clown-likea1640 swainish1642 nut-brown1648 countrified1653 Corydonical1656 sylvatic1661 villatic1671 farmerly1689 peasant1702 soil-bound1814 farmerish1835 farmery1862 corn-pone1919 swede-bashing1936 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. xviii. 312 He milks his flocks, makes his cheese with farmery care. 1943 U. Bloom No Lady buys Cot iv. 73 She had a very rich old uncle of the farmery type. 2013 @kellywillberain 2 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 1 July 2019) If living in wiltshire for over ten years hasn't given me a farmery accent going to uni in somerset defo will. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : fermeryfarmeryn. < n.1656adj.1862 see also |
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