| 单词 | prairie-breaking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie-breaking prairie-breaking adj. and n. (a) adj.(of a plough) suitable for use in prairie-breaking; (b) n.heavy-duty ploughing of a kind requiring the use of a prairie breaker; †land which has been ploughed or broken by a prairie breaker (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] eartheOE earingOE ploughing1374 fallowing1426 labouragec1475 ardagh1483 eara1500 fallowa1500 arder1581 waining1585 stitch1600 caruage1610 furrow1610 till1647 aration1663 bouting1733 breast-ploughing1754 prairie-breaking1845 sodbusting1965 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land earthlandeOE falloweOE acreOE hide and gaine1347 furrowc1380 teamlanda1387 tilthc1460 arablec1475 tilling land1488 flat1513 plough-tilth1516 ploughland1530 tillage1543 plough-ground1551 teamware1567 ploughing ground1625 ploughing land1674 prairie-breaking1845 plough1859 1845 Janesville (Wisconsin Territory) Gaz. 21 Aug. (advt.) Manufacturer of steel and prairie breaking plows and other farming utensils. 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 37 The plows were running..too deep for ordinary prairie breaking. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 132/2 It is only by resorting to figures that one can reach a comprehension of the aggregate extent of these long, narrow, black strips of ‘prairie-breaking’. 1941 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 49 339 Forest-clearing was most generally done by the farm-maker himself while prairie-breaking was very frequently performed by professional breakers on contract. 1986 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 52 100 They also needed forest land for their fields, since they lacked heavy ‘prairie-breaking’ plows to turn the grassland soils. < as lemmas |
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