| 单词 | field labour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfield labour field labour n. agricultural labour done in the fields; (also occasionally) field labourers considered collectively.In quot. 1661 in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] earth-tilthOE earth-tillingOE tilling?c1225 delving1377 laboura1393 land-tillingc1420 culturec1450 tilthing1495 labouring1523 manurea1547 manuring1550 digging1552 cultivation1553 tilth1565 manurance1572 agriculture1583 nithering1599 culturation1606 gainor1607 delvage1610 agricolation1623 gainage1625 cultivage1632 manurementa1639 groundwork1655 fieldwork1656 proscission1656 field labour1661 manuragea1670 subduing1776 management1799 subjugation1800 geopony1808 clodhopping1847 agriculturism1885 the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > collectively workfolkc1425 field labour1661 field folk1863 1661 M. Stevenson Twelve Moneths 42 The Hogs..are become the Plowers of the Corn-fields;..the wind-falls are gathered to fill the Pies for the Houshold, except the old Sow return by chance from her Field-labour, and eat them raw. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. Argt. sig. R2v Negroes should be habituated by gentle degrees to field labour. 1883 Jrnl. Hort. 5 93/2 It is, however, now very difficult to obtain female field labour. 2003 P. P. Mollinga On Waterfront v. 145 Field labour is not done by female family members. < as lemmas |
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