| 单词 | clover-lay |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclover-lay a. Land that has remained untilled for some time; arable land under grass; land ‘laid down’ for pasture, pasture-land, grass-land. clover-lay, ley: see clover n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture leasowc950 leasea1000 pasturea1300 common pasturea1325 grassland1324 laund1340 lea1357 gang1413 feedingc1430 grassa1500 raika1500 beast-gate1507 pasturagec1515 grazing1517 average1537 pasture groundc1537 walk1549 grassing1557 pastural1575 browsing1577 feed1580 pastureland1591 meadow pasture1614 green side1616 range1626 pastorage1628 tore1707 graziery1731 pasturing1759 permanent pasture1771 sweet-veld1785 walk land1797 run1804 sweet-grass1812 potrero1822 pasturage land1855 turn-out1895 lawn1899 1357 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 19 Concelavit eos qui depast. fuerunt les leyes. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 5 Treuthe..bad holden hem at hom and heren heore leyȝes [B. vii. 5 leyes]. a1400–50 Alexander 3561 Ai wald þe wise haue wale soile mare þan a wast lee. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. vi. 30 Nowe feeldes fatte..Is good to plowe, and leyes vp to breke. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 285/1 Lay, londe not telyd. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. vv If yu haue any leys to falowe or to sowe otes vpon, first plowe them. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.iiii In Ianuary husbandes that powcheth the grotes: will break vp their lay [1580 laie], or be sowing of otes. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 36 Rapes require a broken-vp lay and a rich layer. a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 164 The Husband-man..had turned his Acres into Leyes, his Syths and Ploughs into Swords. 1713 London Gaz. No. 5143/4 12 Acres of Meadow Ground, and 4 Leys and a half in St. Ives. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xii. 232 In ploughing lea, where the sward is tough. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 28 He also spreads this manure on lays he intends breaking up. 1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 12 Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Lay, ley, land which has been sown with annual or biennial grasses, and has come round to the time to be reploughed. 1892 Lichfield Mercury 20 May 5/2 Good Ley for few Horses. 1932 Discovery Feb. 61/1 Some progressive farmers are alternating four years of corn-growing with four years of temporary grass leys, on which bullocks and grass-land sheep are fed. 1957 New Biol. 24 42 In many areas it was not convenient to change arable land to leys of any considerable duration. 1962 Listener 1 Feb. 214/1 The old permanent pastures are being replaced by temporary leys, with the plough ‘going all round the farm’. 1972 Oxf. Times 28 July 8 Don't be in a hurry to plough up and re-seed leys and permanent pastures. < as lemmas |
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