| 单词 | houseburning |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse-burning house-burning n. [compare Old English hūsbryne , in the same sense ( < house n.1 + brune n.1)] ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26235 Mans slaghter and hus brening. 1534 G. Ferrers tr. Bk. Magna Carta xv. f. 36 Such prysoners as..be taken for house burnyng felonously done. 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 267 House-burning doth not onely extend to Houses and Barnes wherein Corn is laid up; but also to those heaps which we call Mowes, Stacks, or Reeks, if they be near unto Houses. 1763 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 402 Injuries which respect the Habitations and Property of Men; the former are most affected by the Crimes of House-burning, and Burglary. 1844 P. Harwood Hist. Irish Rebellion 145 To check the system of torture, house-burning, and peasant-shooting. 1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 19 Dec. 15 The floggings, the house-burnings and the murders by yeomanry that took place before the rising. houseburning houseburning n. U.S. the condition of being house-burnt; the process by which this occurs. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > damage due to environmental conditions wind-stroke1657 carbunculation1666 firing1693 fire blast1727 houseburning1757 winter-killing1827 sun scald1850 scalding1865 sunburn1865 wind-blow1921 water stress1922 balling1928 windrock1969 wind-rocking1972 Waldsterben1983 1757 L. Carter Diary 6 Sept. (1965) I. 175 I found it [sc. tobacco] in a great sweat and removed it. This I think sufficiently explains the cause of house burning. 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 324 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI In this crop every leaf was saved, none lost by worms nor by ‘house-burning’ (that is suffering, or even rotting from being hung too thick). 1953 Pop. Mech. Sept. 112/2 Burley tobacco growers..are now using liquid-propane gas burners to halt rot and ‘house burning’ of the product. 2009 Times-News (Hartford & Beaver Dam, Kentucky) 1 Oct. 10 a In houseburning weather, we want the tobacco to dry as much a possible. < as lemmas |
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