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单词 stifle-burn
释义

stifle-burnv.

Etymology: < stifle v.1 or stifle n.2 + burn v.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈstifle-burn.
Agriculture.
transitive. To burn (field-refuse and surface-soil) in heaps pressed down with small access of air.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > burn turf
to pare and burn1530
stifle-burn1862
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > burn land
burn-beat1669
Denshire1669
to burn off1843
stifle-burn1862
slash and burn1955
1862 in Morton's Farmer's Cal. 166 A neighbour stifle-burned a clover lea from which a crop of hay was just cleared.

Derivatives

ˈstifle-burning n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > burning off refuse
burrow1602
denshiring1607
burning1669
burn-baking1769
burn1792
burning off1800
burnbeating1808
stifle-burning1844
burn-off1861
bush burn1861
bush-burning1898
slash-burning1919
1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 169 Paring and Burning, or, as it is called in North Wilts, ‘stifle-burning’, is a system lately introduced into the south of the county.
1849 J. F. W. Johnston Exper. Agric. 257 The burning should be slowly conducted, and with little access of air, a method which is well described by the epithet of stifle-burning.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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