单词 | creech |
释义 | creechn. local. Local name of a kind of stony or gravelly soil: see quots. ΚΠ 16101 [see creechy adj. at Derivatives]. 1798 Ann. Agric. 31 201 Much creech lime from near Matlock. 1801 Ann. Agric. 37 533 The soil is creach upon limestone. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 i. 266 A good red deep loam with fragments of stone (locally [Lincolnshire] termed ‘creech’ land). 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 i. 267 The soil varies from clay to creech and sand; the creech making good arable land. Derivatives creechy adj. (also creachy) of the nature of creech; gravelly. ΚΠ 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ii. 3 Either Simple, as Clay, Moulde, Moore, Grauell, Sande: Or Commixt, as Creachie, Chaulkie, Clayie, Sandie Earth. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 35 Vetches are fruitfull in Creachie Countries. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. i. 43 Best fitted with a glareous soyle, viz. dry, leane and creachy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1610 |
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