| 单词 | apple-garth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasapple-garth apple-garth n. [earliest attested in a surname; compare Old Icelandic epla-garðr] now rare ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of apple-garth1268 oliveyarda1382 olivetc1384 apple orchard?c1400 nut garden1535 oil-garden1535 olive garden1577 lemon-orchard1611 meloniere1658 orange grove1688 melonry1717 nutterya1729 peachery1789 lemon-grove1830 nut grove1840 prune orchard1847 lemon-garden1864 seed orchard1903 1268 in G. Kristensson Stud. Middle Eng. Topogr. Terms (1970) 47 Rob. Ate Applegart. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 4 Appylgarth [1483 BL Add. 89074 Appelle garth], pomarium, pometum. 1877 F. S. Merryweather in Free Church of Eng. Mag. Nov. 214 It was at the back of the house; a room with only one narrow ivy-encircled window, looking out upon the ancient apple-garth, and shut in from outer view by the trees. 1957 R. Sutcliff Shield Ring ii. 14 The bower and byres and barns that clustered round the Hall, the kale-garth and the apple-garth where the beeskeps stood. apple-garth a. A small piece of enclosed ground, usually beside a house or other building, used as a yard, garden, or paddock; frequently with defining word, as apple-garth, barn-garth, cloister-garth, field-garth, fold-garth, garden-garth, hall-garth, hemp-garth, minster-garth, stack-garth, willow-garth, see under the initial element.See also church garth n., kirk-garth n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > small field or enclosure parrockeOE croft969 pightlec1200 curtilagec1330 gartha1340 toftc1440 pingle1546 lot1789 log-paddock1900 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxvi. 2 Þe kale, þat he says not ere of garthis bot of gressis. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 777 Yet is the chalk or cley lond forto eschewe, And from the rede also thy garth remewe. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 257 Throw a dyrk garth [1570 gait] scho gydyt him furth fast. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 39 In symmer syne, quhen euerie schaw wes schene, And euerie garth with gerss wes growand grene. c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) vii. 25 Sen in ȝour garth þe lilly quhyte May nocht remane amang þe laif. 1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas Ded. 5 See lad, quoth he, the house and garth well drest To morrow morn. 1701–2 A. de la Pryme Let. 2 Feb. in Diary (1870) ii. 249 I got it [sc. Aparine Plinii] plentifully in a garth of Richard Rogison's, of Broughton, in Lincolnshire, amongst the corn. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 412 A garden for potatoes, of a rood or half an acre, called a garth. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 i. 126 The most independent mode is for the cottager to rent a small garth or close. 1887 York Herald 16 Apr. 6/5 The party of Greek gipsies..encamped in a garth close to the Gaol. < as lemmas |
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