单词 | osier bed |
释义 | > as lemmasosier bed osier bed n. a place where osiers grow, esp. where they are grown for basket-making. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > place where osiers grown osier-plot1540 osier-ground1569 osier bed1607 osier-holt1660 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 205 I have planted an Ozier hope (for so they call it in Essex, and in some places an Ozier bed) in a surrounded ground, fit before for no vse, for the too much moisture and ouerflowing of it. 1767 G. White Let. 4 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 35 They roosted every night in the osier-beds. 1882 R. Jefferies Bevis I. iii. 41 There was a ‘Yowp!’ and Pan, the spaniel, suddenly appeared out of the flags by the osier-bed. 1990 W. P. Roe Glimpses Chiswick's Place in Hist. 42 The great area of land south of Lord Burlington Lane, down to the river bank, was meadowland with osier beds at the water front. < as lemmas |
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