单词 | summer stirring |
释义 | > as lemmassummer stirring summer stirring n. now historical and rare the action or an act of ploughing fallow land in the summer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughing by season grassearthlOE grass-acre1244 summer stirring1613 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. Former Pt. vi. sig. E1 Whereas before at your Summer-stirring you Plowed your land vpward, now..you shall cast your land downe againe. 1764 P. Miller tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Elements Agric. I. vi. ii. 443 In common field land, the summer stirrings cannot be given without damaging the adjacent land. 1834 Farmer's Mag. July 223/1 Fallows have for the most part received the first summer stirring, a very difficult operation on clays reduced to a state of mortar by the excessive rains of winter, and now baked into a sort of heat by the summer sun-heat. 1967 E. Kerridge Agric. Revol. v. 247 The richest soils could be tilled even longer, but only after a year of bare fallowing and summer stirring. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。