单词 | stifle-burn |
释义 | stifle-burnv. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < v.1844 |
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