单词 | hog-yard |
释义 | > as lemmashog-yard hog-yard n. ΚΠ 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xx. 117 The most neatest Husbands, indeed plant their Trough without their Pale or Hogyard. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxiii. 147 Some Hog-yards will yeeld you forty, fifty, some sixty, some eighty Load, and some more of Excellent Manure of ten or twelve Swine. 1779 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 336 All the dung and offal of my family, of the hog-yard, the poultry-yard, and the dog-kennel. 1840 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. (ed. 2) 48 Peat earth may be also extensively and profitably used for uplands, after it has lain for a season in the cattle or hog-yard. 1996 Independent 16 Aug. i. 13/6 In the 1770s the enterprising laird of Cromarty, in the north of Scotland, had a ‘hog-yard’ built which was thought to be the only one of its kind in the country. < as lemmas |
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