The festival or merry-making to celebrate the successful homing of the corn, called in Scotland ‘the kirn’. (Now rarely held.)
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| 释义 | society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > rustic festivities (5) harvest home1573 The festival or merry-making to celebrate the successful homing of the corn, called in Scotland ‘the kirn’. (Now rarely held.) maiden1806 Scottish. The harvest home and the feast with which it was celebrated. Obsolete. rare. hog-killing1817 The action or practice of killing a hog or hogs; an instance of this. Also: a celebration or event at which a hog or hogs are killed. melon feast1826 a celebration at which prizes are given for the finest melons; a feast or celebration at which melons are the principal food. crop-over1894 in the West Indies, the end of the sugar-cane harvest on a plantation, and the accompanying celebrations. |
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