单词 | manurable |
释义 | manurableadj. I. Senses relating to the tenure and management of property. 1. Of land: that can be worked or cultivated. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] gainable1480 manurable1600 plantable1640 culturable1642 improvable1653 cultivable1682 wainable1706 cultivatable1761 cultivatible1803 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. 360 The countrie..is distinguished with ample plaines, pleasant hils, and high mountaines, most of them manurable. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 544 The residue, except the sand, is made manurable, either for feeding of Cattell or Camels. a1676 M. Hale De Jure Maris i. vi, in F. Hargrave Coll. Tracts Law Eng. (1787) 26 For the most part the lands covered with these fluxes are dry and maniorable. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. vii The quantity of Acres are..: Manurable 6,100,000; Unmanurable 100,000. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica i. ii. 13 They..laid a tax of five shillings per acre, on all manurable lands that should not be forthwith opened and cultivated. 1765 R. Billing Acct. Culture of Carrots 4 The Survey including Hedges and Ditches, whereas I speak of manurable Land only. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1139/1 Manurable, admitting of tillage. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [adjective] > capable of being held manurable1628 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 47 If a man demiseth the vesture or herbage of his land, he may reserue a rent, for that the thing is maynorable. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 142 A Rent seruice cannot be reserued out of any inheritance but such as is manurable, whereinto the Lord may enter and take a distresse, as in Lands and Tenements, Reuersions, Remainders, and as some haue said, out of the herbage of lands. 1767 tr. J. Comyns Digest Laws Eng. V. 3 If he alledges Seisin of Things manurable, as of Lands, Tenements,..&c. he shall say [etc.]. If of Things not manurable, as of an Advowson, &c. he shall say [etc.]. II. Senses relating to fertilizer. 3. To which manure can be effectively applied. rare. ΚΠ 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Manurable, that may be manured, or enriched by manure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1600 |
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