| 单词 | to take stitch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take stitch ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] eartheOE earingOE ploughing1374 fallowing1426 labouragec1475 ardagh1483 eara1500 fallowa1500 arder1581 waining1585 stitch1600 caruage1610 furrow1610 till1647 aration1663 bouting1733 breast-ploughing1754 prairie-breaking1845 sodbusting1965 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] eareOE ploughc1450 to be at the ploughc1535 to take stitch1600 to plough out1643 to plough upa1895 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > depth of ploughing stitch1600 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. ii. 1117 The clots of earth, that were turned with the plow as it took stitch and made furrow. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. iv. 503 In Syria, the husbandmen goe lightly over with their plough, and take no deep stitch in making their furrowes. 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry ii. 14 Taking a good stitch (as they call it in Husbandry). 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry ix. 65 You shall plow vp the ground againe with somewhat a better and deeper stytch then you did before. 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xiv. 79 Plough it..of such a stitch or depth as the Land will bear. < as lemmas |
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