单词 | summerland |
释义 | summerlandn.ΚΠ 1316–17 in N. Neilson Customary Rents (1910) 58 (MED) Cum quibusdam certis redditibus et consuetudinibus vocatis wodefare, Somerelonde, seggeselvere, coupeny, et Roserye. 2. Chiefly British regional. Land that lies fallow in the summer, or that is left without a crop for a year; = summer fallow n. 1. Occasionally attributive and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land > summer fallow summerland1388 summer lea-land1440 summer floor1535 summer fallow1552 summer field1794 1388 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/332/23) cxxiij acre arabilis..vnde xxx acre de Somerlond & sine proficuo hoc anno. 1659 E. With Elizabeth Fools Warning 5 I pray then old man think of it not ill If another should thy Summer-land Till. 1663 N. Powell Animadverter Animadverted 16 2000 Acres of Marsh land which then were good Sommer-land. 1723 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet 8 The tilth for this grain is either Somerland, Bean- or Pease grotten, or Clover, or Trefoil-lay. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 145 I make no summer-land on this light land, but plough sufficiently to get out the grass. 1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 38 It will be found to have fewer weeds, and be more productive, than if sown after a summerland-crop of barley. 1811 W. Gooch Gen. View Agric. County Cambr. xii. 231 That level..was before the adventureship good and profitable summer land. 1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 589 To make a summerland only for swede turnips. 1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow x. 131 A bastard summer-land is so called to distinguish [it] from a true summer-land or long fallow. 2002 Agric. Hist. Rev. 50 10 The region's arable fields were farmed in a three-course system in the seventeenth century with the basic principle that two corn crops were to follow a fallow, or ‘summerland’. 3. a. A (hypothetical) land where it is always summer. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > a spiritual body > state or domain of summerland1837 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [noun] > spiritualism (as opposed to materialism) > elements of summerland1837 the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > summer > land where it is always summer summerland1837 the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > place of supreme happiness heaveneOE Edena1225 paradise?a1300 Garden of Eden1535 eutopia1553 happy land1562 Arcady1590 Hesperidesa1592 Elysiuma1616 God's own country1807 lotusland1856 Adamless Eden1876 summerland1895 Shangri-La1941 1837 Globe (Washington, D.C.) 10 Nov. O! for some isle far in the sea, From turmoil of all traffic free; Where never keel has touched the sand, Some breezy, bloomy summer land. 1863 J. Hamilton Poems & Ess. 28 Summerland—Oh! beauteous region, Rich in foliage, flowers, and fruit. 1881 Homilist 48 76 Hearts that long to be free from this world of winterliness and wickedness, and to rejoice in the summerland of immortality. 1895 F. B. Workman & W. H. Workman Algerian Mem. 44 The summer-land of oranges, lemons and figs. 1903 S. C. Simms Trad. of Crows (Field Columbian Museum Publication no. 85) 283 It made him feel badly, so that he wanted to see the summer land and run after the buffalo calves and the birds. 1985 D. Dunn Elegies 51 I have been there in dreams, walking among Peach-groves..In vineyards overlaid with Martagon lilies, Arabic gardens, the south of Summerland. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 27 May (Review section) 14 In adult life..he [sc. Constable] referred back, constantly, to the Stour, his valley of imagery, his summerland of lost content. b. In the language of spiritualists: the state of the departed. ΚΠ 1855 Knoxville (Iowa) Jrnl. 1 Oct. Perhaps long since, everyone of them ‘crossed the Dark River’ and reached the ‘Summer Land’ and now is entering upon the experience incident to a conjectural futurity. 1869 Spiritualist 17 Dec. 19/3 He found that he could pass through the upper air with ease, and at last they reached what the Spiritualists call the ‘Summer Land’, but in reality the compound essence of seventeen summers distilled into one, would not equal it in loveliness. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 394 The odd thing is that persons unexposed to spiritualist traditions will so often act in the same way when they become entranced, speak in the name of the departed,..send messages about their happy home in the summer-land, and describe the ailments of those present. 1896 Mrs. Besant in Daily News 31 Oct. 6/3 The purgatory of the Roman Catholics, the summerland of the spiritualists, the intermediate states of the Hindus and Buddhists. 1901 ‘Lux Aurea’ (title) Light from the Summerland. Being a Series of Articles illustrating the Truth and Teachings of Spiritualism. 1979 Eng. Jrnl. 68 76/2 Although he goes on to the ‘heaven’ of Summerland, he cannot completely abandon life because of his wife's grief-induced suicide. 2007 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 Sept. vii. 55 Conan Doyle,..lost his son in the war; his brother, too: but it was his implacable belief that they had merely moved on to a ‘summerland’—where, indeed, he contacted them beyond the grave. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † summerlandv. Chiefly British regional. Obsolete. transitive. To lay (land) fallow, esp. in summer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)] > lay fallow summerlay1467 fauch1579 summer fallow1625 rest1634 summerland1667 summer work1687 winter-fallowa1722 pin-fallow1808 dead-fallow1851 fallow1873 bare-fallow1961 1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 13 After a crop of wheat they summerland it. 1673 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 77 To Summerland a ground; to lay it fallow a year, Suff. 1723 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet 10 They are forc'd to Somerland or lay fallow their ground. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1316v.1667 |
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