单词 | summer-till |
释义 | > as lemmassummer-till summer-till v. now chiefly English regional (East Anglian) and historical transitive to plough (land that lies fallow) in the summer (cf. summer-stir vb.); to lay (land) fallow for a summer (cf. summer fallow v.). ΚΠ 1771 Appeal from Court of Chancery: E. Rolfe v. J. Peterson Elder & Younger: Appellant's Case 2 Sowing Ten Acres of Land..with Winter Corn, without first Summer-Tilling, mucking, and tathing the same. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. (at cited word) ‘That field was summer-tilled last year’, i.e. lay fallow. 1970 G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All ix. 101 They used to summer-till the land then, plough all summer long on the owd heavy land. < as lemmas |
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