单词 | manurer |
释义 | manurern. Now rare. Originally: a person who cultivates or occupies land. In later use also: a fertilizer of land. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > tiller of soil delverc888 tillman940 tiliec1000 acremanOE earth-tilieOE land-tiliec1275 tillerc1300 earth-tillera1325 diggerc1400 land-herd1490 earth-tilther1495 tilther1495 land-tiller?a1500 manurerc1500 tillsman1561 tilth-man1638 cultivator1661 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] tenantc1330 landholder1414 terre-tenant1439 manurerc1500 tenurer1660 land-occupier1829 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > fertilizer or manure fatnessc1420 amendment1483 manure1532 manuring1577 battling1600 dressing1600 worth1609 sucken1615 folding1626 fertilizera1661 sumen1662 recuperativec1679 field dressing1743 top-dressing1744 sweetener1765 settera1793 mendment1798 side dressing1819 substratum1822 manurer1829 liquid manure1837 soil amendment1915 side dress1920 Growmore1944 soil conditioner1952 c1500 Harl. MS 4700 f. 282 The proces to be led apoun the wranguis occupiar and manurar or labourar of ony grond. 1566 Bk. Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 238 The lauboraris and manuraris of the ground. 1569 Act 11 Eliz. in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 301 That the inhabitants, manurers, or occupyers of the same doe beare..such charges [etc.]. 1607 S. Hieron Discovery of Hypocrisie 2 He is..the continuall dresser and manurer of his Church. 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea ii. 16 A Land which yields its Manurers as plentiful a Crop as they can wish. 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 340 This animal [sc. the earthworm] destined to be the natural manurer of the soil. 1963 C. Jayawardena in J. Mogey Family & Marriage 52 Others [sc. unskilled labourers on cane plantations] work as weeders, manurers, grasscutters and at other miscellaneous types of work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1500 |
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