| 单词 | house-feed |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse-feed house-feed v. to feed (an animal) indoors or in an enclosure, rather than allowing it to graze in a pasture, field, etc. ΚΠ 1757 in R. Maxwell Pract. Husbandman 160 The Sheep, having Plenty without Doors, and being also House-fed on all necessary Occasions, could..suffer nothing. 1846 Warnes in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 115 One acre will house-feed three bullocks, whereas it will require three acres to graze them in the field. 1908 Handbk. City Dublin (Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci.) 432 These cattle..are..sold..in the open fairs throughout the county, for exportation across the Channel, where they are house-fed. 2000 E. J. T. Collins Agrarian Hist. Eng. & Wales I. 576 On farms..in the Wirral they [sc. dairy cows] were ‘house-fed’ (zero-grazed) in summer on a mixture of cut clover, Italian ryegrass and vetches four times a day. < as lemmas |
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