| 单词 | to lie on the gavel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lie on the gavel 2. to lie on the gavel ( †on the gavel heap): to lie unbound.The meaning ‘ground’ given in Johnson and later dictionaries rests on a misunderstanding of quot. 1707. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > lie unbound to lie on the gavel?1611 to lie in grip1621 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 328 As fields that haue bene long time cloide With catching wether; when their corne lies on the gauill heape; Are with a constant North wind dried. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 97 Let it [Rye] lie upon the ground or gavel [printed gravel], as they call it, after it is cut 8 or 10 days. 1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 74 It [coleseed] is reaped, and left on the gavel till fit to thresh. 1799 Ann. Agric. 32 258 Wheat reaped and not bound lies on the gavel. < as lemmas |
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