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单词 on the gavel heap
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on the gavel heap
2. to lie on the gavel ( †on the gavel heap): to lie unbound.The meaning ‘ground’ given in Johnson and later dictionaries rests on a misunderstanding of quot. 1707.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > lie unbound
to lie on the gavel?1611
to lie in grip1621
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 328 As fields that haue bene long time cloide With catching wether; when their corne lies on the gauill heape; Are with a constant North wind dried.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 97 Let it [Rye] lie upon the ground or gavel [printed gravel], as they call it, after it is cut 8 or 10 days.
1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 74 It [coleseed] is reaped, and left on the gavel till fit to thresh.
1799 Ann. Agric. 32 258 Wheat reaped and not bound lies on the gavel.
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