| 单词 | cultivation terrace |
| 释义 | > as lemmascultivation terrace cultivation terrace n. Archaeology a level strip of land formed either naturally or artificially on a cultivated hillside; a lynchet; cf. terrace-cultivation n. at terrace n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ledge or terrace > [noun] shelvea1701 ledge1732 terrace1753 bench1791 lynchet1797 shelf1807 benching1809 offset1856 cultivation terrace1863 terracing1863 mantelshelf1897 cultivation-bank1913 mantelpiece1920 terracette1922 berm1931 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > terrace lynchet1796 cultivation terrace1863 cultivation-bank1913 strip-lynchet1929 1863 S. St. John Life in Forests Far East (ed. 2) II. Index 411/1 Chinese, in Borneo..; traces of their former cultivation-terraces. 1951 Field Archæol. (Ordnance Survey) (ed. 3) 62 Each of these strips was separated from its neighbours by a ‘balk’ of untilled land, and if the common field so divided lay on the slope of a hill a cultivation terrace or ‘lynchet’ formed on the lower boundary of each in the course of time. 2001 Quicksilver Mag. Spring 30/2 Keep an eye open for examples of lynchets, Anglo Saxon/medieval cultivation terraces which appear as levelled strips of land, five or six ‘flights’ high. < as lemmas |
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