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单词 oart
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oartn.

Brit. /ɔːt/, U.S. /ɔrt/
Forms: 1600s– oart, 1800s ort.
Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Portuguese orta, horta.
Etymology: < Portuguese orta (1564 in this sense, with reference to Goa), variant of horta (1064 in sense ‘kitchen-garden’), alteration of horto kitchen-garden (974 as orto ) < classical Latin hortus garden (see horticulture n.).
Now historical and rare.
In western India: a grove of trees, esp. coconut palms.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove
hurst822
grove889
wood bough?c1225
wood lay?c1225
wood lind?c1225
wood rise?c1225
spring1396
firth?a1400
berwec1440
spring?c1475
grovet1504
coppice1538
copsewood1543
sherwood1562
hewt1575
copse1578
grove-crop1582
berrie1591
low wood1591
spinney1597
spinet1604
spring wood1607
roughet1616
oart1690
toft1706
under-grove1731
bosket1737
busket1803
1690 B. Harris Let. 30 June in Jrnl. Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. (1933) New Ser. 9 4 His oarts &c. wee hear were cutt and spoyled because of his serveing us.
1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies 73 As to the oarts, or coconut groves, they make the most considerable part of the landed property.
1793 Bombay Courier Jan. 12 For sale..That neat and commodious Dwelling House built be Mr. William Beal; it is situated in a most lovely Oart.
1840 Trans. Bombay Geogr. Soc. 4 103 By what I could learn, it was the practice of the revenue managers to go into a cocoanut oart..and estimate the produce of the trees at sight.
1905 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. Bombay 7 374 Jhabur Dewji Raut, a rich landlord of Kelva, had several oarts and gardens of plantains, sugarcane, ginger, cocoanut and other fruit trees.
1913 Rep. Admin. Bombay Presidency 1911–12 ii. i. 57 The primary object of this survey was for the purpose of ascertaining the number of cocoanut, brab and other trees in each oart and the names of the proprietors.
2019 S. Chhabria Making Mod. Slum i. 43 When oarts made up of coconut groves were cleared and cultivators dispossessed of productive land, petitioners came forth requesting that they be compensated with oarts rather than their full value in cash.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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