| 单词 | catch meadow |
| 释义 | > as lemmascatch meadow catch meadow n. now historical a meadow on a hillside irrigated by a series of ditches or catch drains (see catch drain n.); land treated in this way; cf. catch-water meadow n. at catchwater n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 33 The water in this kind of meadow [sc. a flowing meadow] is not used again and again, in one pitch, as in the catch meadows. 1843 P. Pusey in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 314 The worthless slope would be converted into catch-meadow. 2009 D. D. Williams & C. A. Duigan Rivers Wales iv. 45/1 The counterpart to bedwork meadows on sloping land, the ‘catch meadow’, irrigated from a spring or stream above the field, was developed later. < as lemmas |
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