单词 | emmet-cast |
释义 | > as lemmasemmet-cast emmet-cast n. an anthill (see cast n. 19). ΚΠ a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 445 Walking out with me in my meads, and observing the emmet-casts, he told me, he had tried many ways to destroy them. 1906 A. Austin Garden that I Love (new ed.) 96 On the top of this I placed a layer of half-rotted emmet-casts, so as to keep the drainage fairly open. 1976 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) June 323/1 A great preponderance of pasture was permanent (and full of emmet casts as we call ant hills in Sussex). < as lemmas |
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