| 单词 | to lay to grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay (also put, set, etc.) (down) to grass a. Land, esp. farmland, on which grass is sown or is allowed to grow; the condition of such land, esp. in to lay (also put, set, etc.) (down) to grass. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > grassland wong971 greenc1225 clowrec1350 bentc1360 swarth?a1400 flaughtc1400 grassa1500 sward?1507 greenswarda1522 sward-earth1541 swarf1599 over-swarth1649 lawn1674 sod1729 swath1776 spine1786 swad1877 turfage1899 padang1909 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture leasowc950 leasea1000 pasturea1300 common pasturea1325 grassland1324 laund1340 lea1357 gang1413 feedingc1430 grassa1500 raika1500 beast-gate1507 pasturagec1515 grazing1517 average1537 pasture groundc1537 walk1549 grassing1557 pastural1575 browsing1577 feed1580 pastureland1591 meadow pasture1614 green side1616 range1626 pastorage1628 tore1707 graziery1731 pasturing1759 permanent pasture1771 sweet-veld1785 walk land1797 run1804 sweet-grass1812 potrero1822 pasturage land1855 turn-out1895 lawn1899 a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxxvi. §2. 130 The kale..not ere of garthis bot of gressis, that grouys bi thaim ane in the feld. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 86 Moueable escheit is, as be pasturing of cattell or beastes in the lands, or girse of Lords sundrie tymes. 1637 in Rec. Colony Rhode Island (1856) I. 17 The severall portions of grass and meadow. 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 99 Half the lands of a farm, but more particularly of a small or middling one, ought to be grass. 1793 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 400 Preparing the second lot of the mile swamp for the purpose of laying it to grass. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 13 Nov. 6/2 At that time the whole of the land was under cultivation. Now the land had all gone down to what people called grass, but he called it weeds. 1967 E. Kerridge Agric. Revol. iii. 202 Three-quarters of the farm was grass and the main object was animal produce. 2013 D. Goulson Sting in Tale xv. 193 Poupard had put the field down to grass the year before. < as lemmas |
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