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单词 gridironing
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ˈgridironing
ˈgridironing n. New Zealand (see quot. 1910).
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1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 176/1 Gridironing, a term used in the province of Canterbury, New Zealand. A man purchased land in the shape of a gridiron, knowing that nobody would take the intermediate strips, which later he could purchase at his leisure.
1910 Le Rossignol & Stewart State Socialism in N.Z. iii. 37Gridironing’ consisted in buying a series of 20-acre sections so surveyed as to leave 19 acres unbought between each two sections bought; and as no one could buy less than 20 acres without going to auction, the alternating 19-acre sections were left to be occupied by the runholder.
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