单词 | greaves |
释义 | greavesgravesn. With plural agreement. The fibrous matter or skin found in animal fat, which forms a sediment on melting and is pressed into cakes to serve as meat for dogs or hogs, fish-bait, etc.; the refuse of tallow; cracklings. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for horses horsemeat1404 horse-bread1467 horse-loafc1468 bayard's bunc1520 garbage1526 bait1570 rack-meat1607 greaves1614 ray1656 gram1702 oat hay1843 oaten hay1891 the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > pet-food > dog food cracona1300 crawkec1325 quarryc1330 croote1382 criton1388 crap1499 dog meat1505 dog's meat1555 cratchens1601 greaves1614 lap1743 dog biscuit1809 dog food1848 critling1851 cracklingc1865 puppy biscuit1895 kibble1965 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers marl1280 pomacec1450 cod's head1545 buck-ashes1563 bucking-ashes1577 guano1604 greaves1614 rape cake1634 muck1660 wool-nipping1669 willow-earth1683 green dressing1732 bone flour1758 bone powder1758 poudrette1764 bone dust1771 green manure1785 fish-manure1788 wassal1797 lime-rubbish1805 Bude sand1808 bone1813 cancerine1840 inch-bones1846 bonemeal1849 silver sand1851 fish guano1857 food1857 terramare1866 kainite1868 fish-flour1879 soil1879 fish-scrap1881 gas lime1882 bean cake1887 inoculant1916 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > materials for bait1496 paste1653 greaves1740 mackerel bait1866 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry 97 Chandlers Graiues [printed Graines], which is the dregges and offall of rendred Tallow, as hard skinnes, kels, and fleshly lumpes. 1631 E. Pellham Gods Power 14 Lading this other Shallop..with the Graves of the Whales that had beene there boyled this present yeare. 1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii, in Wks. II. 283 It was observed that he was wont still to put more graves than all the rest in his porridge. 1735 T. Lediard Naval Hist. Eng. II. iii. xxviii. 521 They..[had] to feed on the unsavoury and mouldy Frittars and Greaves of Whales. 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling i. xxii. 59 Graves, to be had at the Tallow-Chandlers for a Ground-Bait. 1770–4 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. (1804) VI. 229 A farmer in Surrey used graves from the Tallow-Chandlers, with very great success on sandy soil. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxi. 57 A cake of greaves. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xiv. 420 Greaves or Scratchings is the refuse skin &c.from the tallow melters. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Greaves, Groves, tallow-chandler's refuse. 1894 Times 30 July 6/2 Roach are taking gentles, barbel lobworms, greaves, and gentles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1614 |
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