| 单词 | hog-fence |
| 释义 | > as lemmashog-fence ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture > types of lamb's-lease1609 hog-fence1790 twinter1846 tussock land1881 1790 A. Macmillan Treat. Pasturage ii. ix. 216 There are many places, where sheep are not hirselled or kept in different parcels throught the whole season, that ewes may be kept on low ground upon hog fences. 1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 192 Some better and lower lying pasture is saved..for them [sc. lambs], for their Winter's provision; what is thus hained, is called the hog fence. 1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. 12 On Monanday night he cam yont to stop the ewes aff the hogg-fence, the wind being eissel. 1827 W. Scott Let. in Ipswich Jrnl. 3 Nov. ‘In troth did I, Tam’, answered Andro... ‘I was at London, in a place they ca' the park, that is no like a hained hog-fence, or like the four-nooked parks in this country’. < as lemmas |
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