| 单词 | caving-riddle |
| 释义 | > as lemmascaving-riddle caving n. the action of separating the chaff, etc., from corn; cavings, the chaff or ears thus separated. Also in combinations caving-rake, caving-riddle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > freeing from chaff or straw cavinga1642 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 127 They [sc. young trees] will serve for flayle-handstaffes, Cavinge rake-shaftes..and such other like uses. 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 298 The short chaffy substance thus separated, is in some districts termed cavings. 1865 Cornhill Mag. July 33 In the Midland districts, ears of corn when thrashed are..‘cavvins’. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cavings, refuse bits of straw and dirt mixed with small corn, after threshing. Caving-rake, a rake used for separating the long bits of straw from corn before dressing. Caving-riddle, a riddle used after threshing for separating the corn from the bits of short straw which have come down the machine with it. < as lemmas |
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