| 单词 | free-grown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree-grown free-grown adj. (a) that has been allowed to grow freely or naturally, without any (man-made) encumbrance or restraint; (b) that has been grown or produced by free labourers, as opposed to slaves (now historical). ΚΠ 1789 Edinb. Advertiser 27 Nov. 339/1 All free grown healthy plants. 1840 Times 26 June 4/3 There were several markets where free-grown sugar met with the slave-grown sugar of the Brazils, Cuba, and Perto Rico. 1854 C. E. Stowe Introd. in H. B. Stowe Sunny Memories Foreign Lands I. p. xxv We must..get free-grown cotton, or slavery will not, at least for a long time to come, be abolished. 1928 Sci. Monthly Sept. 275 (caption) Free-grown, nut-bearing trees. 2007 Hist. Today Mar. 29/1 The import duty imposed on their now free-grown sugar was much lower than on slave-grown sugar. < as lemmas |
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