| 单词 | at the plough-tail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat (also from, etc.) the plough-tail The rear or handles of a plough. Also in extended use: ploughing; the occupation or place of a farm labourer, esp. in at (also from, etc.) the plough-tail. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > type or spell of work or payment plough-tail?1523 threaving1768 rounds1795 tut1800 yoking1812 bush-work1830 stoop labour1943 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [adverb] > cultivating or tilling at (also from, etc.) the plough-tail?1523 the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > condition of plough-tail?1523 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > plough-tail or stilt startOE stiltc1340 plough-start1440 tail1466 plough handle?c1475 steer-tree1483 plough stilt?1523 plough-tail?1523 stilking?1523 steer1552 hale?1570 stive1693 plough-tree1799 by-tail1879 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ii The plough tayle is that the husbande holdeth in his hand. 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 112 Wee would haue them forsake all good felowship, & liue like clownes in the countrey by the Plowe tayle. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iv. 230 They forsooke their generall, and returned home to the plough-taile. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xix. 185 He was borne and bred in a poore little Hamlet, getting his liuing by following the Plough-tayle, and breaking Clods of earth. 1697 J. Addison Ess. Georgics in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶¶1v Something of a Rustick Majesty, like that of a Roman Dictator at the Plow-Tail. 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 307. ¶16 A Man..who might have done his Country excellent Service at a Plough-tail. 1787 R. Burns Let. 7 Feb. (1985) I. 92 I must return to my rustic station, and..woo my Muse at the Ploughtail. 1831 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 32 The men were all from the ploughtail. 1889 Harper's Mag. July 241/2 When the latter ploughed, he bore hard on the plough tail many hours a day. 1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 564/1 No doubt the chiel thought he cut a dash among the plough-tail lads. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ii. 46 They had not the air of a gaunt Jock or a round-faced Tam from the plough-tail. 1996 Classical Philol. 91 48 With his hand on the plow-tail, and the oxen straining at the straps, he utters his prayer to Demeter. < as lemmas |
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