单词 | garden pot |
释义 | garden potn.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > watering apparatus watering pot1448 water-pot1530 garden pot1548 watering can1685 watering pan1702 spout head1733 garden engine1744 chantepleure1842 waterer1884 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxix The one side blew Ueluet enbrodred with a mans hartburnyng in a ladies hand holdyng a garden pot stillyng with water on the hart. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vne Chantepleure, a garden pot, a watering pot, the toppe of a Cesterne. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 13 Thence is't that Garden-pots, the mouth kept close, Let fall no liquor at their siue-like nose. 1654 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 2nd Pt. 294 They [sc. clouds] water the garden of the earth, like a Garden-pot. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 14 One large Garden-Pot of black Ditch Water. 1759 J. Justice Brit. Gardener's Cal. 36 Water..with a garden pot, from a nosel upon the stroop thereof. 1851 Farmer's Mag. 20 16/2 The operation of watering pot-plants..could be performed in a superior manner to that in common use by the unavoidably slovenly, spilling, splashing system with the common garden-pot. 1907 Gleanings Bee Culture 1 Oct. 1271/2 If the cellar be extremely dry there can be no harm in sprinkling the floor occasionally with a garden-pot. 2. A pot, typically of earthenware or (in later use) plastic, used for growing a plant in; a plant pot, a flowerpot. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > flower-pot or tub garden pot1592 flowerpot1598 pot1615 forty-eight1808 jardinière1841 thumb-pot1851 flower-box1876 window box1895 planter1948 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 67 Conuenyent garden pots [It. capsule hortense] in the which in stead of growing plantes, euerie one was of pure glasse,..intorpiaried boxe the rootes and stalkes of golde. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ix. 236 They sate not so sweet as Roses and Flowers in a garden-pot. 1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India v. 127 Garden-Pots with Ears, some very large for Trees. 1776 G. White Jrnl. 25 May (1970) ix. 123 He..took a toad, and put it in a garden-pot. 1808 Let. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 175 When..the fibrous roots of trees are crowded together in a garden-pot, they are often found lifeless in the succeeding spring. 1852 Cottage Gardener 1 Jan. 216/1 Provide also a good quantity of materials for drainage; the best being that made of broken garden pots. 1939 O. Sitwell Escape with Me! (1940) vi. 279 Bowls of glazed earthenware—large and deep as an Italian terracotta garden pot. 1987 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 Aug. 15 The pottery is producing over 2000 garden pots a day. 2009 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 16 Sept. 4 e It's not easy being green, especially since many municipalities don't recycle garden pots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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