† root-weltv.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: root n.¹, welt v.²

Etymology: < root n.¹ + welt v.² Compare Norwegian regional rotvelta to uproot or overturn by the roots, rotvelte overturned tree, Swedish rotvälta overturned tree (second half of the 18th cent.), Danish (chiefly regional) rodvælte overturned tree. Compare earlier root-walt v.

English regional. Obsolete.

transitive. To uproot or overturn (wheat) by the roots. Also intransitive: (of wheat) to overturn, be uprooted. Cf root-walt v.

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a1710 T. Whitaker Serm. on Several Occasions (1712) 107 Corn that lies near Day, and wants Depth of Earth, is quickly root-welted.

1768 C. Varlo Mod. Farmers Guide II. iii. 33 They certainly would fall down, and what we call root welt.

1811 R. Parkinson Gen. View Agric. County of Huntingdon vii. 149 The land became drier than it should be, and the wheat root welted.

1851 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 157/2 A soil too light or too rich for wheat, one which will make its [sic] root-welt in the spring, may be successfully sown with oats.

Derivatives

root-welted adj.

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1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Root-welted, torn up by the roots.

root-welting n.

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1807 R. Parkinson Experienced Farmer (rev. ed.) ii. xxiii. 447 The great cause of wheat's root-welting appears plainly to me to arise from the land's lying hollow.

1854 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 25 113/1 The turnip sickness—the clover sickness—the root-welting of wheat—the failure of beans, are all more or less due to the want of change, either in the system of growing these crops on given farms, or to the system of growing them at least throughout the area of the islands.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	root-welt
释义	† root-weltv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: root n.¹, welt v.² Etymology: < root n.¹ + welt v.² Compare Norwegian regional rotvelta to uproot or overturn by the roots, rotvelte overturned tree, Swedish rotvälta overturned tree (second half of the 18th cent.), Danish (chiefly regional) rodvælte overturned tree. Compare earlier root-walt v. English regional. Obsolete. transitive. To uproot or overturn (wheat) by the roots. Also intransitive: (of wheat) to overturn, be uprooted. Cf root-walt v. ΚΠ a1710 T. Whitaker Serm. on Several Occasions (1712) 107 Corn that lies near Day, and wants Depth of Earth, is quickly root-welted. 1768 C. Varlo Mod. Farmers Guide II. iii. 33 They certainly would fall down, and what we call root welt. 1811 R. Parkinson Gen. View Agric. County of Huntingdon vii. 149 The land became drier than it should be, and the wheat root welted. 1851 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 157/2 A soil too light or too rich for wheat, one which will make its [sic] root-welt in the spring, may be successfully sown with oats. Derivatives root-welted adj. ΚΠ 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Root-welted, torn up by the roots. root-welting n. ΚΠ 1807 R. Parkinson Experienced Farmer (rev. ed.) ii. xxiii. 447 The great cause of wheat's root-welting appears plainly to me to arise from the land's lying hollow. 1854 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 25 113/1 The turnip sickness—the clover sickness—the root-welting of wheat—the failure of beans, are all more or less due to the want of change, either in the system of growing these crops on given farms, or to the system of growing them at least throughout the area of the islands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.a1710
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