| 单词 | imp-yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasimp-yard C1. attributive and in other combinations, as †imp-garden, imp-garth, imp-yard (nursery-garden, garden of plants), †imp-tree; imp-like adj. ΚΠ 1337–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 34 In..semine canab. emp. pro le ympyard. c1345 Orpheo 68 They seten hem down all thre, Fayr under an ympe-tre. 1446–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 84 Pro custodia orti Cellerarii vocati ympgarth. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 76 The orderyng of an Impe Garden..wherein as in a Parke, the young plantes are nourished. 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 140 Where Imp-Gardens are poor, the tender Plant..does seldom thrive. 1831 J. Hunter Hist. Deanery Doncaster II. 6 An imp-yard is what is now known by the term nursery-garden, as may be seen in The Booke of Husbandry by Barnaby Googe. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 146 What a childlike and yet half imp-like volume of laughter lay in Frank. < as lemmas |
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