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单词 lubba
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lubban.

/ˈlʌbə/
Forms: Also 1700s lobba.
A name used in Shetland and Orkney for coarse grass or sedge (see quots.). Also attributive.
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c1794 T. Johnston in Shirreff Agric. Surv. Shetld. (1814) App. 46 On the berry heather and lobba pastures they [sheep] are at their prime from five to seven years old.
1795 G. Low in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIV. 316 [The hills] are covered with heath, and what we call lubba, a sort of grass which feeds our cattle in the summer time; it generally consists of different species of carices, plain bent, and other moor grasses.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands iii. 435 Lubba comprises those common productions of the hills which are found where heath is absent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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