单词 | corn-ground |
释义 | corn-groundn. archaic. A piece of land used for growing corn; corn-land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > corn-land or -field cornlanda1387 cornfield?1523 corn-ground1548 granary1570 milpa1648 kerning-ground1732 seeds1794 walk1797 corn belt1882 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxvv The kyng..lodged within .iii. myles of the cytie, on a corne grounde by the ryuer. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 179 Two Pieces of Corn-Ground. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iv. 55 Vineyards, Corn-grounds and Meadows. 1760 G. Washington Diaries I. 160 [I] find..not half a crop, especially of Corn Ground, prepared. 1886 Z. F. Smith Hist. Kentucky 367 Uncle Ben..plowed the corn-ground. 1954 M. Beresford Lost Villages Eng. vii. 246 Sheer excellence of corn-ground. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1548 |
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