单词 | mole drain |
释义 | mole drainn. A small subterranean drain made in agricultural land by a mole plough. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage gutteringc1420 strand1565 sewaging1610 thorough-draining1669 cuniculus1670 French drain1738 riggot?1746 bush-draining1748 surface drain1765 land-drain1767 pipe-draining1776 surface draining1777 fox1784 surface drainage1796 mole drain1804 soughing1808 acequia1811 well-draining1818 tile-draining1830 wedge-draining?1830 plug-draining1833 land-drainage1841 land-draining1841 mole-draining1842 trough gutter1856 mole-ditching1860 mole drainage1860 tile-drainagea1865 well point1867 karez1875 storm sewer1887 moling1943 tiling1943 storm drain1960 1804 A. Young Farmer's Cal. 568 The mole drain-plough with wheel and roller, 6.0.0. 1806 W. Marshall On Managem. Landed Estates i. 119 Mole Drains. An implement has lately been invented, to form small pipe drains, a foot or more beneath the surface; by the means of a thick iron spike, pin, or bolt, drawn horizontally, at that depth. 1846 Newcastle Courant 8 May 8/3 One field..had a small rivulet running across the bottom, into which the Mole drains emptied themselves. 1859 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 15 Oct. 2/2 Among the various reports of fairs I have not seen any mention of a mole drain machine I saw at Zanesville, at the Ohio State Fair. 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 249 These mole-drains may be cut either in the gang, or by the plows. 1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 476 ‘Mole-drains’, 3 feet deep, are connected with the field ditches to control the height of the water table. 1957 E. Blunden Poems of Many Years 280 Waters drawn together From gully and moledrain by contour, chance and weather. 1986 C. Culpin Farm Machinery (ed. 11) xxii. 372/2 Mole drains work best in the first five years of their life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1804 |
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