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单词 free-working
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free-working
free-working adj. (a) that works or operates freely; (b) (of stone, soil, etc.) that may be worked freely.
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a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xiii. §1. 135 Both wittingly, and willingly, by a free-working will.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §98 Portland, or some other free working stone.
1837 P. Lindsley in Wks. (1859) I. 396 Establish an efficient, free-working university anywhere..and the common schools will spontaneously grow up around it.
1892 J. C. Blomfield Hist. Heyford 3 Light or free-working land may be ploughed more easily than that which is stiff and heavy.
1958 H. G. Sanders Outl. Brit. Crop Husbandry (ed. 3) 100 Even couch may be eradicated on free-working soils by ploughing once every month from February to July.
2005 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 14 Oct. 68 Seed orders drop off dramatically after the middle of October. Free working chalk soils make it possible to get everything done by then.
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