单词 | foot-cock |
释义 | > as lemmasfoot-cock foot-cock n. English regional (now historical) a small conical heap of hay, grass, etc.; cf. cock n.3The homographic verb in quot. 1794 probably implies currency at a slightly earlier date. ΚΠ 1794 ‘Pluralist’ Tithes iv. 94 The farmer is compelled to foot-cock all his crop immediately from the scithe.] 1797 J. Bailey & G. Culley Gen. View Agric. Northumberland 100 After the grass is cut it is..put into foot cocks (wappings) which can scarcely be too small. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 490 The grass..should then be gathered..with forks, into small ‘cocklets’ or ‘foot-cocks’. 1902 Sat. Rev. 12 July 41/1 The recollection of old hay-times... Who hears nowadays of foot-cocks and wind-rows? 1992 M. Harding Daddy Edgar's Pools 37 Each haytime he rakes footcocks by moonlight. < as lemmas |
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