| 单词 | house-burnt |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse-burnt house-burnt adj. U.S. designating tobacco which, while being cured in a tobacco house, has been damaged or spoilt by damp, disease, or rot. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > spoiled by heat, cold, etc. mowburnt1548 house-burnt1640 winterkilled1817 1640 in Arch. Maryland (1883) I. 98 Bad Tobacco shall be judged ground leafes, Second Crops leafs, notably brused or worm eaten, or leaves house burnt, sun burnt, [etc.]. 1757 L. Carter Diary 6 Sept. (1965) I. 175 I put some tobacco in the Fodder house 3 days agoe out of the weather and this day it appeared some of it house burnt. 1897 Bradstreet's 25 Oct. 1/4 Some of the leading growers report several crops as ‘house burnt’ and inclined to rot. 1901 Rep. Virginia Dept. Agric. & Commerce 107 It should not be crowded on the sticks, nor in the house, as it might cause it to house-burn, and house-burnt tobacco is of little value. 1991 L. G. Carr et al. Robert Cole's World (new ed.) iii. 63 It was easy to produce ‘firing’—a blight of hard brown spots—..and ‘house burnt’ leaf was not merchantable. < as lemmas |
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