| 单词 | summerlea |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummerlea summerlea n. (now chiefly in form summerley) English regional (chiefly East Anglian) (now historical and rare) a piece of land which is left fallow, or sown with a fallow crop, for a summer; (also, and in earliest use, with reference to a piece of land) the condition of lying fallow during the summer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land > other fallows summerlea1572 summer fallow1601 winter fallow1601 twifallowing1610 fallow1684 rag fallow1784 1572 J. Mounford 12 June in A. H. Smith et al. Papers N. Bacon of Stiffkey (1979) I. 28 There lyeth more in somerley..& laye londes uppon which londes the towneshyppe tey..there kene..325 acre. 1775 N. Kent Hints to Gentlemen 117 The farmer at leisure to work, and attend, his summer-lays. 1782 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Norfolk (1787) II. 320 Lambs,..bought up by the East-Norfolk ‘graziers’; in order to pick among their summerlies, and their stubbles, after harvest. 1967 E. Kerridge Agric. Revol. ii. 73 Successions of crops and periods of ‘summerley’ alternated. ‘Summerleys’ were still fallows and were adopted because these lands were liable to blow or scorch in the course of fallow stirrings. < as lemmas |
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