| 单词 | potato land |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato land potato land n. ΚΠ 1758 W. Bailey Treat. Better Employment of Poor in Workhouses 53 The Potatoe Lands will give Four or Five good Crops of Oats. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland i. 344 Plough the potatoe land once or twice for barley. 1855 Trans. Amer. Inst. N.-Y. 1854 168 in Docs. Assembly State N.-Y. (78th Session, Doc. No. 144) V Salt..will kill grubs, and may be used to advantage on potato land. 1965 K. H. Connell in D. V. Glass & D. E. C. Eversley Population in Hist. xvii. 428 The practice of letting farms by auction in a country [sc. Ireland] where land was almost the only resource encouraged tenants to outbid one another in the tribute they offered to acquire the right to potato-land. 2009 Classic Tractor Sept. 41/2 The CVX comfortable handles a four-furrow plough on potato land and is an excellent tractor for combination drilling. < as lemmas |
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