英语词汇“ridge and furrow”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. ridge and furrow: designating a system of ploughing fields into ridges separated by furrows; (in early use) esp. in to lie (with) ridge and furrow. Also (in extended use) designating a style of roofing featuring a series of ridges and depressions; (in Mining) designating undulations in the strata of coal seams (rare). Now chiefly historical.

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1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xiv. 79 Consider thy Land how it lyeth, whether round with Ridg and Furrow, then use your owne discretion for the manner of Ploughing.

1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 528 The firm Ground in some places lay ridge and furrow.

1705 in L. O. Tyson Mashamshire Collieries Brit. Mining 82 (2007) 53 The seam of coales 14, 15 or 16 inches high and goeth much Rigg and Furrow.

1727 R. Bradley Compl. Body Husbandry vi. 133 A field which is ploughed for wheat, is said to lie ridge and furrow.

1770 A. Young Six Months Tour N. Eng. I. v. 353 As to the laying arable land down to grass, they do it in the ridge and furrow-way.

1851 Art Jrnl. Hist. Exhib. 22/2 Among other striking examples of the ingenuity of the originators and constructors of the Crystal Palace is the ridge-and-furrow roof.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 47 Gullies sawn in the slopes..giving..a ridge-and-furrow look to this and most other of the Antilles.

1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 51 Meadows ridge-and-furrow ploughed.

1958 New Biol. 26 40 This is particularly well shown in grasslands in which there are marked variations in the height of the water table, such as the characteristic ridge and furrow grasslands of Britain.

1967 Listener 6 July 10/3 The head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire, Joseph Paxton, then invented ridge and furrow roofing, without rafters.

1974 C. Taylor Fieldwork in Medieval Archaeol. iii. 57 The ridge and furrow ends on a well-marked terrace which was both a trackway through the fields and a headland on which the plough was turned.

2000 Canoeist Apr. 32/3 There were slips in the approach cuttings during construction, mounds of soil from these being left near the canal in contrast with the ridge and furrow fields.

单词	ridge and furrow
释义	> as lemmas ridge and furrow d. ridge and furrow: designating a system of ploughing fields into ridges separated by furrows; (in early use) esp. in to lie (with) ridge and furrow. Also (in extended use) designating a style of roofing featuring a series of ridges and depressions; (in Mining) designating undulations in the strata of coal seams (rare). Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xiv. 79 Consider thy Land how it lyeth, whether round with Ridg and Furrow, then use your owne discretion for the manner of Ploughing. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 528 The firm Ground in some places lay ridge and furrow. 1705 in L. O. Tyson Mashamshire Collieries Brit. Mining 82 (2007) 53 The seam of coales 14, 15 or 16 inches high and goeth much Rigg and Furrow. 1727 R. Bradley Compl. Body Husbandry vi. 133 A field which is ploughed for wheat, is said to lie ridge and furrow. 1770 A. Young Six Months Tour N. Eng. I. v. 353 As to the laying arable land down to grass, they do it in the ridge and furrow-way. 1851 Art Jrnl. Hist. Exhib. 22/2 Among other striking examples of the ingenuity of the originators and constructors of the Crystal Palace is the ridge-and-furrow roof. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 47 Gullies sawn in the slopes..giving..a ridge-and-furrow look to this and most other of the Antilles. 1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 51 Meadows ridge-and-furrow ploughed. 1958 New Biol. 26 40 This is particularly well shown in grasslands in which there are marked variations in the height of the water table, such as the characteristic ridge and furrow grasslands of Britain. 1967 Listener 6 July 10/3 The head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire, Joseph Paxton, then invented ridge and furrow roofing, without rafters. 1974 C. Taylor Fieldwork in Medieval Archaeol. iii. 57 The ridge and furrow ends on a well-marked terrace which was both a trackway through the fields and a headland on which the plough was turned. 2000 Canoeist Apr. 32/3 There were slips in the approach cuttings during construction, mounds of soil from these being left near the canal in contrast with the ridge and furrow fields. extracted from ridgen.¹ < as lemmas
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