| 单词 | round ridging |
| 释义 | > as lemmasround ridging round ridging n. chiefly Caribbean the practice on sugar cane plantations of making small, rounded banks of earth between the planted rows, usually to improve drainage; (also occasionally) the ploughing of land into rounded ridges. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughing in ridges ridging1499 balking1549 raftering1724 round ridging1756 upsetting1784 rafter ridging1838 1756 S. Martin Ess. upon Plantership (ed. 3) i. 15 Hoe-plowing in clay soils that have lain long under water is indeed hard labor; but it will every year grow the lighter by being well drained by round-ridging. 1786 Ann. Agric. 5 107 We reject up-setting, which is here called round-ridging..; and we plough the land flat. 1849 G. F. Mann Estimate Expense Constr. Village in Accts. & Papers (House of Commons) (1850) VIII. 225 8,700 yards lineal round ridging to roads, including a drain on each side. 1905 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 18 Sept. 6/7 Hand in hand with draining goes round ridging. 1987 D. Watts W. Indies (1990) ix. 426 He [sc. Samuel Martin] devised a system of ‘round ridging’, which involved the construction of a series of ridges and trenches on flat land. < as lemmas |
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