| 单词 | greening-pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreening-pit ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > breeding oysters > oyster-bed oyster-leyne1581 oyster bed1591 stew1610 greening-pit1667 layer1735 laying1837 park1867 plantation1881 hive1882 claire1901 1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. i. 309 Brickel-Sea Pits green both Winter and Summer: and for a further proof, a Pit within a foot of a greening Pit will not green. 1800 Philos. Mag. 5 102 They assert that when, in the neighbourhood of a greening-pit, another is formed at the distance of about foot, the water never becomes green in the latter. 1880 R. S. Charnock Gloss. Essex Dial. 19 Greening-pits... The Colchester oysters were frequently distinguished by a green tinge, which the fisherman had the art of communicating to them. < as lemmas |
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