| 单词 | cocoa walk |
| 释义 | > as lemmascocoa walk cocoa walk n. now chiefly historical a plantation or row of cacao trees. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > cacao plantation cocoa walk1670 cacao plantation1757 cacao walk1885 1670 J. Ogilby America ii. xv. 337 Neither wants it great Sugar-works, which have Water-mills and Horse-mills, and very many large Cocoa Walks, the most and best Tobacco: and in short, it produceth all other Commodities, that any of our American Islands have knowledge of. 1756 R. Rolt New & Accurate Hist. S.-Amer. I. ii. iv. 476 The plantations are called cocoa-walks. 1872 R. K. Philp Domest. World 76/1 In the West Indies, by the description of travellers, a ‘cocoa walk’ or plantation is a very beautiful scene. 1907 Bull. Dept. Agric. Jamaica 5 141 Care should be taken to remove all prunings from Cocoa walks, and burn them, as these are fruitful sources for the propagation of disease. 1996 D. Buisseret in R. B. Sheridan W. Indies Accts. iii. 57 In Spanish times there had also been many cocoa-walks, but Taylor notes that these were now mostly ruinate. < as lemmas |
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