| 单词 | grass cock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrass cock grass cock n. now Irish English (northern) a small heap or stack of grass that has been cut for hay and left in the field to dry; cf. cock n.3, haycock n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > stook or cock shockc1325 cocka1398 stook14.. poukera1450 haycockc1470 cop1512 stitch1603 pook1607 grass cock1614 hattock1673 stuckle1682 cocklet1788 coil?a1800 lap-cock1802 shuck1811 button1850 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. vii. 97 The next day you shall make it into little grasse Cockes, as bigge as little Moale-hilles. 1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) at Windrows From which Windrows the Hay-makers gather it [sc. Grass] into little heaps, wherein it lies the first day to dry that are called Grass-cocks. 1897 Gentleman Farmer Mar. 262/1 We have seen grass spread a few hours after being cut and afterwards saved by constant loosening and re-making of the grass-cocks. 2018 @SMag72 12 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) If it was a bad year we would make grass cocks to let the hay dry then build rucks of hay. < as lemmas |
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