单词 | wheat-land |
释义 | wheat-landn. Land on which wheat is grown or suitable for growing wheat on. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > wheat-land or -field wheat-land977 977 Charter of Oswald in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 159 Buton .lx. æcran ðæt hæft se arcebisceop genumen into Cymesige to his hame him to hwæte-lande. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 54 Thry fallow once ended, go strike by & by, both wheat land, & barley. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 59 (margin) Wheate lande howe dressed. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry II. 12 He gave five plowings to a piece of wheat-land. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 173 The same Power..That browns the wheat-lands in their summer-stain. 1916 Times 27 Nov. 10/4 Many thousand acres of our richest wheatland is to-day totally uncultivated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.977 |
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