单词 | lazy-bed |
释义 | lazy-bedn. Potato-growing. A bed about six feet wide, on which the potatoes are laid, with a trench on each side, two or three feet wide, from which earth is taken to cover the potatoes. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > plot of cultivated land acreOE plotlOE inhook1214 table?1440 culturea1475 labouragec1475 land1731 lazy-bed1743 ladang1783 shamba1840 1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 159 In ley Ground they [Potatoes] are commonly, in Scotland, planted in Lazy-beds, as they are called. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland i. 300 Mr. Herbert has cultivated potatoes in the common lazy-bed method. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 193 The old fresh lazy-bed mode..seems to have taken great root in Devonshire. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. ii. 320 Potatoes..are mostly planted in the Irish fashion, or in lazy beds. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 24 The lazy-bed system may be advantageously followed on stiff retentive clays. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1743 |
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