| 单词 | spade graft |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspade('s) graft 1. The depth of earth that may be thrown up at once with a spade; a ‘spit’. Often spade('s) graft. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > digging > digging to spade depth > spade's depth spade-graft1252 spit1507 graff?1523 graft1620 spade1674 spit1677 spade-bit1790 1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husb. (1625) 41 Within a spades graft of the vpper swarth of the earth. 1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 32 You your self may dig one spade graft deep for them in sandy, heathy ground. 1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 139 We dug..one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand. 1802 Trans. Soc. Arts 20 191 The drains were generally made two grafts deep. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 i. 55 I then dug a trench..throwing the first graft of good soil on one side. < as lemmas |
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