单词 | in swath |
释义 | > as lemmasin (the) swath a. A row or line of grass, corn, or other crop, as it falls or lies when mown or reaped; also collectively, a crop mown and lying on the ground; phr. in (the) swath (cf. Low German in't swatt), lying in this condition.Sometimes, ‘the quantity falling at one sweep of the scythe’ (Robinson Whitby Gloss. 1876 at Sweeathe). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > crop as it falls cut swathc1325 swarth1552 rew1553 swatch1577 lodging1733 swipe1869 c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 154 Une andeyne de prée, a swathe [v.r. a swethe of mede]. c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 112 M[an] mawith of mede a swath. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2508 A mede..Mawene and vne-made,..In swathes sweppene downe, fulle of swete floures. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20v Grasse lately in swathes is hay for an Oxe. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 25 The strawy Greekes ripe for his edge Fall downe before him like a mowers swath . View more context for this quotation 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue v. 499 Long Swathes of their degraded Grasse, Well show the way their sweeping Scithes did pass. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iv. vi. 499 If there be plentie of grasse, and that you see it lye thicke in the swathes. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 42 Swaths of new-shorne grasse. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vi. 52 We turned the swath to the wind. 1766 Compl. Farmer Grips, the swaiths, or small heaps of corn, lying in the field, as it is cut down with the scythe. 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 265 Hay [is] in swath, when just mowed. 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 74 in Farm-rep. That it may come early to the swaith, it is never permitted to eat it down in autumn. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 73 As clover..is rarely tedded, it should be sufficient to leave every tenth swathe for the tithe. 1840 Florist's Jrnl. July 70 Though the swathe from some grounds is not heavy, the quality will everywhere be very superior. 1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. xi. 243 The grass had been cut, and left in swaths. 1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways i. 1 Men..were mowing the frozen grass..and as the swathes fell, they gave a crisp..sound. < as lemmas |
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