| 单词 | infield and outfield |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinfield and outfield a. The land of a farm which lies around or near the homestead, as opposed to the outlying parts, which are usually on higher ground and may consist of moorland; hence, arable land as opposed to pasture; land regularly manured and cropped. infield and outfield, a system of husbandry which confines manuring and tillage to the infield land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation round tilth1723 infield and outfield1733 terrace1796 superculture1835 terrace-cultivation1860 terrace-culture1863 conservation tillage1897 monoculture1901 strip farming1913 polyculture1915 sailab1916 shifting cultivation1922 strip-cultivation1932 shifting agriculture1934 strip-cropping1936 podu1938 contour terracing1939 strip system1954 swiddening1971 monocropping1974 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > outlying or inlying land inland1473 outfield1542 infield1733 home ground1750 back forty1936 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > infield or outfield townland1509 outfield1676 infield1733 infold1861 outfold1861 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 37 When we break up one Field for Tillage, if we left out another for Hay or Pasture in good Condition, the unfrugal Practice of Outfield and Infield would be at an End, every Part of a Farm would in its Turn produce equally plentiful Crops of Grain or Grass. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xiii. 101 The arable land in Scotland is divided into infield and outfield. The infield is the land upon which, from time immemorial, the whole dung made in the farm has been laid. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. i. 83 The part of the Township properly arable, and kept as such continually under the plough, was called in-field. 1848 A. Hepburn in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 6. 272 The wretched system of agriculture, called infield and outfield, which prevailed throughout the greater part of last century. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 270 The cultivated land was divided into ‘in-fields’ and ‘out-fields’; the former, being those nearest the central establishment, received all the manure that was made, and were planted with tobacco. 1903 New York Sun 1 Nov. 10 His car was seen to swerve suddenly and dive through the heavy fence of the infield. < as lemmas |
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