| 单词 | mast year |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmast year mast year n. a year in which woodland trees produce a good crop of mast. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest > good harvest or crop foison1587 mast year1743 masting1760 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Nov. ix. 89 Under these Trees, the Hogs generally get Pork in a Maste-Year. 1760 W. Douglass Brit. Settlem. N. Amer. II. 375 Anno 1733, a good mast year, one man..salted up three thousand barrels of pork. 1850 Ladies' Repository Apr. 112/2 If it is what is called ‘mast-year’—that is, when the woods abound in nuts, acorns, etc.—these animals..will display evidence of good living. 1989 Forestry 62 357 ‘Mast’ years occur irregularly at present. < as lemmas |
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