| 单词 | houseburn |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouseburn houseburn v. U.S. (a) transitive (chiefly in passive) to make (tobacco) house-burnt; (b) intransitive (of tobacco) to become house-burnt. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > affect with disease or atmospheric conditions [verb (transitive)] smut1626 snape1631 blight1695 houseburn1708 rust1759 spur1896 scorch1905 windrock1969 the world > plants > disease or injury > be diseased, injured, or discoloured [verb (intransitive)] burn?1523 blast1580 slaya1642 smut1657 fire1693 mowburn1707 go1735 strike1742 curl1793 gum1794 sunburn1833 French1836 rust1839 shank1848 houseburn1850 1708 J. Seymour Discomforts Colonial Life in A. B. Hart Source-bk. Amer. Hist. (1899) vii. 108 The numerous hazards of unseasonable weather, the Fly, the ground worme the house wormes, it's [sc. the tobacco crop's] being house-burnt, frostbitten. 1799 J. B. Bordley Ess. & Notes Husbandry 135 How uncertain is the tobacco crop!..curling or frenching, from too much rain; house-burning..whilst curing; [etc.]. 1841 Farmers' Reg. 31 May 259/2 The heaping of tobacco in some degree protects it from being sun burned. But care must be taken to avoid another casualty, that of being house burned. 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 321 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI Splitting tobacco is admired by many who contend that it cures brighter..and [is] less likely to house-burn. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 45 16 Tobacco will house burn in wet weather if you don't fire it. 2006 Southeast Farm Press (Nexis) 16 Aug. 23 If you get into a wet spell and your tobacco tries to houseburn on you, you may need to get some fans in there to dry it out. < as lemmas |
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