英语词汇“pitch of work”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Agriculture. An area of a field (originally of a water meadow) on which a defined amount of work is undertaken (also pitch of work); (also) one which is allotted to a particular worker. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > one's > allotted

pitch1794

1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 33 The water is thrown over as much of the meadow as it will cover well at a time, which the watermen call a ‘Pitch of Work’; and when it is necessary to lay this pitch dry, they take out the turves and let the water into the drains.

1801 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 51 Having thus completed one pitch of work, (if you will allow me to borrow a phrase from the water flooders).

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 659 After having completed..one pitch of work, consisting of thirteen ridges, he is to begin again in a similar manner.

1875 J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. 16 The two meadows..were not divided, till the choice pitches were assigned in 1731.

1943 H. J. Massingham Men of Earth iii. 31 When the lots were cast, each new owner took his scythe and ‘made his pitch’, that is to say, he mowed round the post or pile of stones that was his boundary mark.

1954 Econ. Hist. Rev. 6 286 Between each pair of carriages was a drain that took off the water at the other end of the meadow and passed it to a main drain that rejoined the river below the pitch of work.

单词	pitch of work
释义	> as lemmas pitch of work b. Agriculture. An area of a field (originally of a water meadow) on which a defined amount of work is undertaken (also pitch of work); (also) one which is allotted to a particular worker. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > one's > allotted pitch1794 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 33 The water is thrown over as much of the meadow as it will cover well at a time, which the watermen call a ‘Pitch of Work’; and when it is necessary to lay this pitch dry, they take out the turves and let the water into the drains. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 51 Having thus completed one pitch of work, (if you will allow me to borrow a phrase from the water flooders). 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 659 After having completed..one pitch of work, consisting of thirteen ridges, he is to begin again in a similar manner. 1875 J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. 16 The two meadows..were not divided, till the choice pitches were assigned in 1731. 1943 H. J. Massingham Men of Earth iii. 31 When the lots were cast, each new owner took his scythe and ‘made his pitch’, that is to say, he mowed round the post or pile of stones that was his boundary mark. 1954 Econ. Hist. Rev. 6 286 Between each pair of carriages was a drain that took off the water at the other end of the meadow and passed it to a main drain that rejoined the river below the pitch of work. extracted from pitchn.² < as lemmas
随便看	pentose pentose cycle pentose nucleic acid pentose phosphate pentose phosphate cycle pentose phosphate pathway pentose phosphate shunt pentose shunt pentoses pentoside pentosuria pentosuric pentothal pentothal sodium pentoxide pentoxides pentremital pentremite pentrial pentrough pentryl pents pentstemon pentstemons pentup

> as lemmas