| 释义 |
roughet dial.|ˈrʌfɪt|
Also 9 roughit, 6, 9 ruffet.
[f. rough a.]
a. A field overgrown with bracken or bushes; a stretch of waste land; a copse.
b. Coarse dried grass left on pasturelands as winter fodder for cattle (cf. rowet).
1616Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. iv. 414 Right perfect in the skilles Of ridinge goiles, plaines, ruffetes, dales, and hills. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorks. I. 236 The old well-timbered woods..have..got up fortuitously from seedling-plants, rising in neglected roughets. 1796― W. Eng. II. 68 The produce—arable crops, grass, wood, and roughets of furze, and rubbish. 1847–in dial. glossaries (Heref., Glouc., Kent). |