单词 | orewood |
释义 | orewoodn. British regional (southern). Now Welsh English (Pembrokeshire) (rare). = oarweed n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > seaweeds used as fuel or manure warec725 sea-warec1000 kelpa1387 orewood1586 ore1587 float-ore1602 vraic1610 woad of the seaa1613 oarweed1622 bell-ware1812 laminaria1848 1586 W. Camden Brit. 69 Alga marina Orewood dicta. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27v To this purpose also serueth Orewood, which is a weed growing vpon the rockes vnder high water marke. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 30 They vse both Orewood, Sea-sand, and Sea-slubbe for soylings. 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry xi. 77 Those broad leaued blacke weeds, which are called Orewood, and grow in great tufts..about the shoare. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. (1687) 321 Ore-wood, Sea-weeds or Oose wherewith they manure their Land. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) Sea Weed, That call'd Ore-Wood is much used in Cornwall. 1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. South Pembrokeshire Hore-wood, sea-weed. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1586 |
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