| 单词 | mossing | 
| 释义 | mossingn.  The action of moss v.   (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > 			[noun]		 > picking or gathering other things wool-gathering1581 mossing1700 acorning1818 cocksfooting1896 turpentining1910 wildcraft1924 1478    in  L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. 		(1992)	 xv. 234  				Moseying and poyntynge. 1591    Churchwardens' Accts. Minchinhampton in  Archaeologia 		(1853)	 35 436  				To William Webbe, the tyler, upon a bargin for mosing and tiling and pynting of the church house and pentises, vij s. 1700    O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. 		(1885)	 IV. 231  				Sam. Stocks came a mossing. 1845    Stat. Acc. XIII. 75  				For mossing, men receive 1s. 6d., and women, 9d. per day, without victuals. 1856    E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvii. 355  				All hands..are out ‘mossing’. This mossing..is a frightfully wintry operation. The mixed turf of willows, heaths, grasses, and moss, is frozen solid... I have some eight sledge-loads more to collect before our little home can be called windproof. 1880    C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 329  				This mossing process for renewing the bark. 1892    J. Smith Home-spun Rhymes 151  				Till mossin' time again cam' soon. 1959    People's Jrnl. 1 Aug. 		(Aberdeen ed.)	 11/2  				It's been a gran' 'eer for mossin' tho', an' some o' the mair forcey chiels hid hame their first cuttin' afore the hiner-en' o' June. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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