| 单词 | to give the seed furrow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give the seed furrow (to) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > seed-furrow or drill > making seed-furrow or drill seed furrow1589 seed furrowing1699 1589 F. Trigge Apol. against Vaine Murmurings & Complaints Epist. sig. A2v We shall one day perceiue that all the workes of God, euen our great fluddes, our yll seede forrowes, our great windes, our weete haruestes, shall tende to the saluation of our soules. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 43 Their seuerall orders and seasons for fallowing, twifallowing, trifallowing and seed-furre. 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry xvi. 148 For soyling; winter rigging, and seed furrow, sixe beasts may dispatch that labour. 1724 Treat. Fallowing i. 12 Which is to be done before you give it [sc. the Ground] the seed-furrow. 1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 83 In the Spring give a Steering-fur, as it is called; then the Seed-fur; then sow Barley or Bear with Grass-seeds. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xiii. 243 A much less quantity is taken off when land gets the seed-furrow, the chief design of which is to enlarge the pasture. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 217 It is neither practicable nor prudent to give the seed-furrow to much of that land in winter. 1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Hill-farm 7 in Farm-rep. If the land requires another ploughing before the seed-furrow. 1864 A. J. Warden Linen Trade iv. 517 When the land was somewhat moist, the ground did not get a seed furrow, as this was found to be detrimental to the lint. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator I. 330/2 After the drills are harrowed down, and the seed-furrow is given, the dung becomes intimately incorporated with the soil. < as lemmas |
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