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单词 well-farmed
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well-farmedadj.

Brit. /ˌwɛlˈfɑːmd/, U.S. /ˌwɛlˈfɑrmd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., farm v.2, -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < well adv. + farm v.2 + -ed suffix1.
Of land: farmed skilfully or knowledgeably, or according to the best agricultural practice. Also of a region or area: containing many farms; intensively farmed.
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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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