| 单词 | earing-land | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasearing-land   The action of ploughing; (also) an instance of this, a ploughing. Also attributive, as  earing-land,  earing-time. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > 			[noun]		 eartheOE earingOE ploughing1374 fallowing1426 labouragec1475 ardagh1483 eara1500 fallowa1500 arder1581 waining1585 stitch1600 caruage1610 furrow1610 till1647 aration1663 bouting1733 breast-ploughing1754 prairie-breaking1845 sodbusting1965 OE    Antwerp-London Gloss. 		(2011)	 45  				Aratio, eriung. c1300						 (    Will of Ketel (Sawyer 1519) in  J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus 		(1848)	 VI. 200  				Ðat eringlond [c1275 erninglond] ðat Ælfwold mine man haueð hunder hande. a1333    Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth 		(BL Add.)	 		(1929)	 284 (MED)  				Eriynge [glossing Fr. arure]. a1333    Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth 		(BL Add.)	 		(1929)	 694 (MED)  				Eriinglond [glossing Fr. tere arable]. a1393    J. Gower Confessio Amantis 		(Fairf.)	  v. l. 1228 (MED)  				The ferste craft of plowh tilinge, Of Eringe, and of corn sowinge.   Promptorium Parvulorum 		(Harl. 221)	 141  				Eryynge of londe, aracio. c1460    in  A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey 		(1907)	 175 (MED)  				In erynges, cariages, Medesutes, Mowynges, and all other Seruages. a1500    Walter of Henley's Husbandry 		(Sloane)	 		(1890)	 45 (MED)  				Þe firste day off erynge, falowinge & sowynge. 1530    Bible 		(Tyndale)	  i. xxi. f. 37  				Let them bringe her vnto a valeye where is nether earinge nor sowenge. 1574    J. Baret Aluearie E 13  				The first earing or tilthe of lande. 1600    R. Surflet tr.  C. Estienne  & J. Liébault Maison Rustique  v. ix. 672  				Wheate or mesling especiallie, do desire to haue three earings, before they be sowen. 1611    Bible 		(King James)	 Exod. xxxiv. 21  				In earing time and in haruest thou shalt  rest.       View more context for this quotation 1764    Museum Rusticum 2 lxxiv. 247  				If a man's ardors (or earings) be considerable, he will not finish before July. 1779    E. Wolff En Dansk og Engelsk Ord-bog at Agerdyrkning  				Tilling, manuring, earing of ground. 1795    J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XV. 117  				Services done by the tenants, that ought to be abolished, such as reaping, earing, plowing, harrowing, driving out dung. 1827    J. Taylor Old Eng. Sayings 37  				If we do not sow in earing time, it is useless to sow in harvest. 1894    J. H. Wylie Hist. Eng. Henry IV II. li. 223  				The swampy wilderness..was already transformed into rich grass land, or assarted to tilth and earing. 1910    J. Lister in  H. L. Roth Yorks. Coiners, 1767–83  ii. i. 116  				The sweat of the brow, and the labour of spade and plough have wrested little patches of earing land, meadow, and pasture, from the dominion of whins and heather. 2001    A. Major Kentish as she wus Spoke 63  				Earing, Eryng, the time in a working day's ploughing. < as lemmas  | 
	
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