单词 | hand-hoe |
释义 | hand-hoev. transitive. To hoe (a crop, an area of land, etc.) by hand. Cf. hand hoe n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > hoe billc1440 paddle1556 sarculate1623 hoe1712 hack1732 hand-hoe1733 hoe-plough1733 scuffle1766 small-hoe1786 shim1797 horse-hoe1830 nidget1843 first1860 prong-hoe1892 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry x. 45 'Tis seldom that these Rolled Turneps can be Hand-Ho'd at the Critical time. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry III. ii. iii. 6 Observing that many of the plants were yet alive, and in a condition to be recovered, though thinly scattered, he hand-hoed the whole. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. iii. i. 485 They are..planted in drills, hand-hoed, and horse-hoed. 1894 Agric. Gaz. New South Wales Jan. 189 Mr. Muscio regards it as time wasted in having to hand-hoe weeds left by an inefficient implement. 1921 Soil Sci. 12 332 On March 4 the plots were cultivated, on the tenth they were ridged up and hand-hoed. 1993 Country Guide (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Mar. (Eastern ed.) 22/1 We hand-hoe about 500 acres of beans every year. Derivatives ˈhand hoeing n. the action or process of hoeing by hand; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vii. 32 In Hand-Hoing there is always less Seed, fewer Plants, and a greater Crop. 1854 S. Sidney & W. H. Wills in Househ. Words 16 Sept. 116/2 Hand-hoeing, flail-thrashing..are the rule. 1884 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1883 16 513 The land was kept free from weeds by one hand-hoeing and two scarifyings during the season. 1911 J. Johnson Tobacco Culture Wisconsin 24 The ‘horse hoe’ has largely superceded [sic] hand hoeing on most tobacco farms with a large acreage. 2000 P. W. Bosland & E. Votava Peppers vi. 121 Weeds in pepper fields are controlled for the most part by tractor cultivation and hand hoeing. ˈhand-hoer n. ΚΠ 1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry vi. 401/1 The Farmer..may now send in his Hand-Hoers again, with Orders to cut up the Weeds close on the Outside of every Row. 1846 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 203/2 Immediately after the operation of horse-hoeing, the hand-hoers (women and young persons) are set to work. 1913 Q. Jrnl. Econ. Aug. 665 The cultivator..enabled one horse and man to do the work of thirty hand-hoers. 2001 Daily News (New Plymouth) (Nexis) 14 June 15 A tractor would mean we could plant a field in a week. If we do that with oxen and hand-hoers it takes a month or more. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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