单词 | potato ground |
释义 | > as lemmaspotato ground potato ground n. ΚΠ 1701 Remarks by Way of Answer to Char. Mod. Whig 12/1 They were never..given away by his Majesty..for Potatoe Grounds. 1753 W. Stewart in Scots Mag. Mar. 134/1 The pannel was walking from his potatoe-ground. 1838 W. L. Rham Outl. Flemish Husbandry ix. 47 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III A practice of sowing hemp in a border all round a garden or potato-ground. 1879 Boy's Own Paper 18 Jan. 12/2 The beans and peas..were always in good order; so, too, was the potato-ground at the back. 1960 Times 19 Mar. 8/6 I was using a wide one-furrow plough..for breaking potato ground. 2005 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 21 Jan. 2 Preparation of potato ground starts with ploughing, usually in the winter, but increasingly in the spring. < as lemmas |
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