| 单词 | golden hoof |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgolden hoof golden hoof n. (with the) the ability of sheep or other animals to improve the texture and fertility of land by grazing and trampling it; the use of pasturage as a means of improving land for cultivation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > by animals golden hoof1860 1860 Southern Cultivator Aug. 259 They [sc. sheep] are the animals with the golden hoof, enriching where they tread. 1941 M. Graham Soil & Sense iii. 47 It is presumably this essential difference between crumb structure and floury structure that has made the ‘golden hoof’ of the sheep important in consolidating land in which there is too little clay. 1957 E. J. Russell World of Soil vii. 171 So great was the benefit to the succeeding crop and to the condition of the soil that farmers regularly spoke of the ‘golden hoof’ as the best amendment for light soils. 2017 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 June 36 A..publication looking at sheep on arable farms and the return of the ‘golden hoof’ in low ground rotations. < as lemmas |
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