| 单词 | vine-growing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvine-growing (b) With verbal nouns or participial adjectives, as vine-bearing, vine-dressing, vine-growing, etc.; also vine-prop adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] vine-dressingc1440 vineyarding1870 viniculture1871 viticulture1872 (b) c1440 Pallad. on Husb. Table (1896) 16 Vyne couerynge and vindage apparayle. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Binement, a vine working, weeding. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A4 The sayling Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-propp Elme. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. Table s.v. Vine planting and pruning. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 613 Arne claims A record next for her illustrious sons, Vine-bearing Arne. 1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad vi. 111 An enclosure of land,..pleasant, vine-bearing, and arable. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti i. 14 Had Timour been trained to cabbage-raising and vine-dressing. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 237/1 A vine-growing country hitherto free from Phylloxera. < as lemmas |
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