单词 | well-farmed |
释义 | well-farmedadj. Of land: farmed skilfully or knowledgeably, or according to the best agricultural practice. Also of a region or area: containing many farms; intensively farmed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated wroughtOE subact?1440 laboured1470 tilled1546 well-cultured1555 well-laboured1571 husbanded1578 toiled1578 well-husbanded1581 cultive1611 improved1617 cultivated1622 well-cultivated1650 manured1746 well-farmed1770 reduced1794 farmed1800 tillaged1854 tilthed1866 tame1887 1770 A. Young Course Exper. Agric. II. iii. i. 70 Probably the soil will for ever be the better for such a year of improvement; at least if it continues to be well farmed. 1800 Ld. Somerville Syst. Board Agric. 171 We are told, in Kent's Report of Norfolk, a well-farmed corn county, that..the import of oats in that county alone exceeds its growth by 15,389 quarters. 1833 F. A. Butler Jrnl. 14 Apr. (1835) II. 173 As we approached Boston, the country assumed a more cultivated aspect,..the land was well farmed. 1883 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 359 On well-farmed lands, on the common practice, the average contents of the wheat-ears must be from 20 to 30. 1955 Earl Winterton Fifty Tumultuous Years 216 Well-farmed land. 2008 J. S. Lucas in P. Southgate & J. S. Lucas Pearl Oyster iv. 111 This was not the case in well-farmed Takapoto lagoon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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