单词 | strawberry-prick |
释义 | > as lemmasstrawberry-prick a. Simple attributive, as strawberry bed, strawberry blossom, strawberry border, strawberry box (also figurative), strawberry garden, †strawberry-prick (= strawberry seed), strawberry root, strawberry runner, strawberry seed, strawberry time. ΚΠ 1535 in E. Law Hist. Hampton Court Palace (1885) 372 For gathering of 34 bushells of strawberry rot. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19 Wife into thy garden, & set me a plot, with strawbery rootes. 1619 Depositions Bk., Archd. Essex & Colchester 117 b Deponit that, in Strabury tyme was twelve moneth, [etc.]. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in Sylva Dress up and string your Strawberry-beds. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §7. i. 160 In colour, shape, and bigness like a Strawberry-seed. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 45 The curious Plants I here took particular notice of, are these:..9. Lychnis, with Flowers, speckled, like the Strawberry-pricks. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 96 The Vine-yard planted in Strawberry-borders. 1699 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 9) 99 Pluck up Strawberry Runners. 1787 J. Woodforde Diary 15 Oct. (1926) II. 352 I was very busy this morning in my Garden making some new Strawberry Beds. 1802 W. Wordsworth Foresight 3 Strawberry blossoms, one and all, We must spare them. 1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen ii. 34 My asparagus and strawberry beds Are trampled into clauber. 1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell vi. 93 Life just one strawberry-box after another. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 2042/1 An infected Strawberry bed should be cleared by burning all the plants. 1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai iii. 35 All about us they [sc. passengers] were vomiting into ‘strawberry boxes’. < as lemmas |
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