A plot or piece of land, a field; spec. a piece of tilled or arable land. Now archaic and in proper names, as Long Acre.
| 单词 | θ52038 |
| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > plot of cultivated land (10) acreOE A plot or piece of land, a field; spec. a piece of tilled or arable land. Now archaic and in proper names, as Long Acre. plotlOE A fairly small piece of ground, esp. one used for a specified purpose, such as building or gardening, etc. Cf. plat, n.3 1. Also figurative. inhook1214 A term applied in Middle English times to a piece of land (temporarily) enclosed from the fallow and put under cultivation; an enclosure (of this… table?1440 A plot of ground for planting; a bed. Cf. tablemeal, adv. Obsolete. rare. culturea1475 concrete. A piece of tilled land; a cultivated field. Obsolete. labouragec1475 The work of cultivating the soil; agriculture; spec. ploughing. Also: an instance of this. Obsolete. land1731 South African. An area of ground under cultivation; = field, n.1 2a. Frequently in plural. lazy-bed1743 A bed about six feet wide, on which the potatoes are laid, with a trench on each side, two or three feet wide, from which earth is taken to cover the… ladang1783 A piece of land under dry cultivation, often a jungle clearing. Also attributive. shamba1840 A piece of cultivated land; a farm or plantation. |
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