单词 | oart |
释义 | oartn. Now historical and rare. In western India: a grove of trees, esp. coconut palms. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1690 |
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