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单词 creech
释义

creechn.

/kriːtʃ/
Forms: Also creach.
Etymology: Derivation unknown.
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.
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