单词 | infield/outfield system |
释义 | > as lemmasinfield/outfield system a. The outlying land of a farm; (Scottish and English regional (northern)) the outlying land which is either unenclosed and uncultivated moorland or pasture, or that has been occasionally cropped without being manured. Frequently used attributively, as in outfield (and) infield system (also infield/outfield system): see infield n. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > outlying or inlying land inland1473 outfield1542 infield1733 home ground1750 back forty1936 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [adjective] > inlying or outlying land in-town1538 infield corn1606 outfield1823 1542 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 203 Outfeild land. 1568 in G. Donaldson Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1963) VI. 39/2 The thrid pece of kirkland foirsaid quhilk is merchit about the outfeild of Lochend. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 361 I know that it is not my home nor my Father's house: it is but..the outer close of His house, His outfields and muir-ground. 1674 Forbes Baron Court Bk. in Publ. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1919) 2nd Ser. 19 297 That..they doe not raiff thair ky in out feidle. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 37 The unfrugal Practice of Outfield and Infield would be at an End. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xiii. 101 The arable land in Scotland is divided into infield and outfield. The infield is the land upon which, from time immemorial, the whole dung made in the farm has been laid. 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 315 His land is..originally all outfield, being mostly covered with whins and heath not many years ago. 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 189 Ropes..thrown over all the outfield hay ricks. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 94 The chief part of each farm consisted of ‘out-field’ or unenclosed land, no better than moorland. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood iv Cattle..soon turned both outfield and infield into a miry wilderness. 1992 M. Aston Interpreting Landscape (BNC) 72 [By the thirteenth century] a new field system of three fields..replaced the infield/outfield system [in Yorkshire]. < as lemmas |
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