单词 | mowburn |
释义 | † mowburnn. Obsolete. = mowburning n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant > caused by overheating or fermenting mowburning1677 mowburn1710 mowheat1828 1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus (E.D.S.) 290 Mow-burn is occasioned by the Hay being stack'd too soon, before its own juice is thoroughly dried. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 lxxv. 251 Your correspondent's method seems to threaten that dreadful malady, mow-burn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018). mowburnv. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. intransitive. Of hay, corn, etc.: to heat up and begin fermenting through being stacked damp or too green; to become mowburnt. Also occasionally transitive (in passive): to succumb to mowburning. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > be diseased, injured, or discoloured [verb (intransitive)] burn?1523 blast1580 slaya1642 smut1657 fire1693 mowburn1707 go1735 strike1742 curl1793 gum1794 sunburn1833 French1836 rust1839 shank1848 houseburn1850 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 134 Be careful not to house it green, lest it mow-burn. 1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman IV. i. 101 Coarse sedgy hay..will mowburn. 1809 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 287 This grain [sc. barley] is more difficult to manage than either wheat or oats, being..easier mou burnt. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 266/2 The buyer has also to judge if it has been heated or ‘mow-burnt’, while lying in the field after being cut, or in the stack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1710v.1707 |
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