单词 | melonry |
释义 | melonryn. Now chiefly historical. A place for the cultivation of melons. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of apple-garth1268 oliveyarda1382 olivetc1384 apple orchard?c1400 nut garden1535 oil-garden1535 olive garden1577 lemon-orchard1611 meloniere1658 orange grove1688 melonry1717 nutterya1729 peachery1789 lemon-grove1830 nut grove1840 prune orchard1847 lemon-garden1864 seed orchard1903 1717 S. Collins Paradise Retriev'd 80 Take horse-litter from the Dunghil..and..make the Seed-Bed of it, laying it about five foot wide,..and as long as every one thinks proper, according to the size of his Melonry. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Mellonry, a Place or Plat of Ground wherein Melons are sown... An author of our own Nation being more particular in the Account he gives of a Mellonry [etc.]. 1727 S. Switzer (title) Practical kitchen gardiner, or system for employment in the melonry, kitchen garden, and potagery. 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. i. 473 The situation of the melonry is generally in the slip. 1988 ‘Miss Read’ Eng. Vicarage Garden 68/1 Standing..has plans to re-make the melonry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1717 |
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