| 单词 | land-devouring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland-devouring (b) In adjectives, as land-devouring, land-eating, land-scourging, land-tilling, land-visiting, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] land-tilling1393 colonicala1641 improving1650 farming1673 farmering1753 minifundista1969 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ix. 140 Ȝe ben wastours..that deuouren That leel land-tylynge men leelliche byswynken. 1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 12 These and such like Land-devouring enormities. 1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 48 Such a Land-scourging rod. 1814 J. Taylor Arator (ed. 2) 128 If an abundance of labour caused a land killing agricultural system..Flanders should be a wilderness. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xl. 315 Walberswick is a decayed port, a victim of the land-eating sea. 1883 C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Dec. 107/2 Jumping and land-visiting fishes. 1891 Cent. Mag. Feb. 535 The promise..was broken when it became important to conciliate land-thieving squatters. < as lemmas |
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