| 单词 | to cast sods, turf, peat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cast sods, turf, peat a. To throw up (earth, etc.) whence the current northern use in to cast sods, turf, peat: to dig them up. Also in ploughing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) > dig or break up (ground) delvec888 dig1382 gruba1400 stubc1450 cast1497 sheugh1513 to search upc1540 stock1802 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig > throw up earth wrootc1440 cast1497 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 364 To the monk that castis the gardin. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viiiv Let him cast his barley erth, and shortely after to rigge it agayne. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. lv. 390 It being vsed to be cast and tilled with thicker raysings of the earth. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 201 Petes and fyre wes veray scarss, throw want of seruandis to cast and win thame. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 262 The seruandis, who suld haue cassin the peites. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 131 To be preserved always in the same form, by casting, that is, by ploughing two ridges together, beginning at the furrow that separates them, and ploughing round and round, till the two ridges be finished. 1860 J. F. Campbell Pop. Tales W. Highlands II. 36 The Laird was getting his peats cast. 1889 N.E.D. at Cast Mod. Sc. Casting divots on the edge of the common. < as lemmas |
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