单词 | earth-tilling |
释义 | earth-tillingn. The activity or process of tilling or cultivating the soil, husbandry. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] earth-tilthOE earth-tillingOE tilling?c1225 delving1377 laboura1393 land-tillingc1420 culturec1450 tilthing1495 labouring1523 manurea1547 manuring1550 digging1552 cultivation1553 tilth1565 manurance1572 agriculture1583 nithering1599 culturation1606 gainor1607 delvage1610 agricolation1623 gainage1625 cultivage1632 manurementa1639 groundwork1655 fieldwork1656 proscission1656 field labour1661 manuragea1670 subduing1776 management1799 subjugation1800 geopony1808 clodhopping1847 agriculturism1885 OE Ælfric Homily: Sermo de Die Iudicii (Hatton 115) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 597 Dei agricultura estis, Dei edificatio estis; ðæt is on Englisc, ge syndon Godes eorðteolung [OE Corpus Cambr. 178 Godes tilung] & Godes getimbrung. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 2 Chron. xxvi. 10 He was a man ȝeuen to erth tyllyinge [a1425 L.V. erthetilthe; L. agriculturae]. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. iii. 9 Ȝe ben the erthe tilyinge [L. agricultura] of God. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 31 Þis kyng [sc. Azarias] louede wel erþe telynge [a1425 Harl. teliynge, 1482 Caxton tillyng]. a1500 ( W. Worcester Scrope's Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Trin. Cambr.) (1999) 28 (MED) Ricches that comyth of the erth-tilynge. 1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 16 Ye answers set down ar very narrow,..as to their light & usefullnes in ye busines of earth-tilling. 1851 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 125/1 This..is a work that marks a revolution in the whole art of earth-tilling. 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 265 Earth-tilling is the great basis that supports every business and calling of life. 1931 Handbk. Netherlands & Overseas Territories (Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 318 The existing crude method of earth tilling and drainage. 2001 J. Chance Lord of Rings (rev. ed.) iv. 93 His vocation and class depend more on manual labor and earth-tilling than on the leisurely pursuit of scholarship and books. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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