单词 | meat earth |
释义 | > as lemmasmeat earth meat earth n. English regional (south-western) good and fertile soil, esp. topsoil. ΚΠ 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 324 Meat-Earth, soil; the superficial earth, fit for agriculture. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Meat-earth There is often abundance of meat-earth on virgin soil where the plough has never been. 1919 China Clay Trade Rev. Oct. 135/2 On the Bodmin granites some of the peat bogs overlie china clay areas. Any soil, ‘meat earth’, as it is called, is preserved and used on the neighbouring farm land. 1932 Cornishman 12 May 2/3 Mr. Watson, the borough head gardener, has, during his short term of office, shown great skill in proving what could be done by placing many tons of meat earth covered with many tons of granite rocks in position. < as lemmas |
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