seed fieldn.

Brit.

/ˈsiːd fiːld/, U.S.

/ˈsid ˌfild/

Forms: see seed n. and field n.¹ Also early Middle English sedefled (probably transmission error).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seed n., field n.¹

Etymology: < seed n. + field n.¹Compare German Saatfeld (early 15th cent.), and also German Samenfeld (15th cent. or earlier). In quot. 1615 after Arabic ḥarṯ land under cultivation (Qur'an 2:223).

A field in which seed is sown. Also figurative.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > land for sowing or planting

seed field1222

planting ground1636

1222 in W. H. Hale Domesday St. Paul's (1858) 50 (MED) x acras quarum quique [perhaps read quinque] fuerunt sedefled [read sedefeld].

1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ ii. §70 The wiues of men are as it were the seed-fields of the men.

1794 A. Lowe Gen. View Agric. Berwick 133 The error here is occasioned by letting the seed-field remain too long in a growing state.

1832 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 46 Our country was all altered; browsing knowes were become seed-fields.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. ii. 3/1 For a speculative man, ‘whose seedfield’, in the sublime words of the Poet [sc. Goethe], ‘is Time’, no conquest is important but that of new Ideas.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ix. 206 A folk, poor and savage;..often without cattle or seedfield.

1937 Times 25 Feb. 5/7 The Southwold after meeting at Baumber yesterday found a fox in Mr. Bowser's seed field.

1981 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 7 Oct. This year's harvest is being delayed by excessive rains in the Midwest and Northern states, where there has been damage to many seed fields.

2015 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 17 Aug. I have already left the seed field open for grazing of cattle.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seed field
释义	seed fieldn. Brit. /ˈsiːd fiːld/, U.S. /ˈsid ˌfild/ Forms: see seed n. and field n.¹ Also early Middle English sedefled (probably transmission error). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seed n., field n.¹ Etymology: < seed n. + field n.¹Compare German Saatfeld (early 15th cent.), and also German Samenfeld (15th cent. or earlier). In quot. 1615 after Arabic ḥarṯ land under cultivation (Qur'an 2:223). A field in which seed is sown. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > land for sowing or planting seed field1222 planting ground1636 1222 in W. H. Hale Domesday St. Paul's (1858) 50 (MED) x acras quarum quique [perhaps read quinque] fuerunt sedefled [read sedefeld]. 1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ ii. §70 The wiues of men are as it were the seed-fields of the men. 1794 A. Lowe Gen. View Agric. Berwick 133 The error here is occasioned by letting the seed-field remain too long in a growing state. 1832 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 46 Our country was all altered; browsing knowes were become seed-fields. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. ii. 3/1 For a speculative man, ‘whose seedfield’, in the sublime words of the Poet [sc. Goethe], ‘is Time’, no conquest is important but that of new Ideas. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ix. 206 A folk, poor and savage;..often without cattle or seedfield. 1937 Times 25 Feb. 5/7 The Southwold after meeting at Baumber yesterday found a fox in Mr. Bowser's seed field. 1981 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 7 Oct. This year's harvest is being delayed by excessive rains in the Midwest and Northern states, where there has been damage to many seed fields. 2015 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 17 Aug. I have already left the seed field open for grazing of cattle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1222
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