| 释义 |
wooding, vbl. n.|ˈwʊdɪŋ|
[OE. wudung, f. wudian: see wood v.2 and -ing1.]
1. The action of procuring or taking in wood for fuel, esp. on board a vessel; also, feeding a fire with wood.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 222 Þæt Israhela folc ᵹeðafode þæt sume ða hæðenan on heora ðeowte leofodon, to wudunge and to wæterunge.
1613J. Saris Voy. Japan (Hakl. Soc.) 69, I gaue leaue to as manye as would to goe ashoare, hauing done watring and wooding. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 116 Besides our constant Employment in Wooding and Watering. 1866Howells Venetian Life 35 By dint of constant wooding I contrived to warm mine [sc. stove]. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. (ed. 2) 145 Notice any convenient creeks or rivers for wooding or watering.
attrib.1789Portlock Voy. 314 At this island I would advise the watering and wooding business to be done. 1804Gillespie in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 222 The wooding and watering parties. 1863Russell Diary North & South I. 269 The scenery and the scenes were just the same as yesterday's—high banks, cotton-slides, wooding stations.
2. The action of planting ground with trees; concr. a plantation or collection of trees. Sc.
1788Picken Poems 76 The mantlan ivy clings To wooding in the grove. 1790A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 106 Deep in lanely woodings lost. 1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 355 The wooding of two acres of ground..as a Close Plantation. 1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 103 Much of the wooding which gives variety..to the landscape. |