| 单词 | farm gate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfarm gate farm gate n. a gate at the entrance of a farm; (in later use) often as symbolizing the point at which a commodity leaves the farm for sale, esp. with reference to the price of a commodity at the end of agricultural production, before transportation costs, processing costs, etc., are added; also used as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > other types of gate hatchOE leap-gate980 clicket gate?1499 court-gate1540 bar-gate1600 out-gate1648 hatch door1689 six-bar1711 heave-gate1736 farm gate1785 barrier-gate1834 Taranaki gate1937 1785 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (1790) II. 103 I gave the subject extraordinary attention, and at length reached, what appears to be..the completion of the art of hanging farm gates. 1834 D. Low Elements Pract. Agric. 630 Farm gates have sometimes been made wholly of hammered iron. 1941 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 260 160/2 The action of the Price Tribunal in fixing the farm-gate price of winter milk in Otago at 11d. per gallon. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 1 Mar. 58/1 The total January farm-gate deliveries of 148½m gallons. 1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside vi. xix. 213 The average percentage contribution to total farm sales by value from all kinds of sale direct to the consumer, like ‘pick your own’, special deliveries and farm-gate sales, was 20 per cent for the whole of Essex. 2019 @Diddyman5 20 July in twitter.com (22 July 2019) This my friends is the beginning of a base shift in food prices in the store, but not necessarily at the farm gate. < as lemmas |
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