单词 | hazel ground |
释义 | > as lemmashazel ground 1. Earth containing a mixture of sand, clay, and gravel. Chiefly (and in earliest use) attributive, as hazel earth, hazel ground, hazel loam, hazel mould, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > mixed with sand and clay hazelly1587 hazle1587 1587 [implied in: A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1543/1 The stuffe carried..for the erection of the walles at Douer, was earth, being of a haselie mould, chalke and sleech. (at hazelly adj.1)]. 1598 I. R. Fitzherbert's Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) i. iii. 3 Some neither Sand nor Clay, but like a mixture of both, yet neither, which is called a Hassell ground. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. Former Pt. x. sig. H4 Blacke Clay mixt with red Sand, which..is called of Husbandmen an hassell earth. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) i. vi. 20 He shall sow his Barley, either on Clay ground, hassell, or mixt Earth. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 341 The manner of tillage that is also given light or hasel mould. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xxxix. 118 The soil consists of black and white poor hungry sand; some tolerable sand, and some of what we call hazel mould, and some little clay. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 165 A field of good hazle loam. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 26 On all soils, except those of a deep hazel mould or sandy loam. 1967 E. Kerridge Agric. Revol. (2006) ii. 136 In drained salt-marshes, a deep, rich, hazel loam stood on beds of sea-sand, silt or clay. < as lemmas |
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