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单词 osier-ground
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osier-ground
osier-ground n. now historical = osier bed n.
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1569 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1994) (modernized text) IX. 175 My osier ground called Bilden Mead Osiers, and the residue of my lands unbequeathed.
1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis xiv. 26/1 A grove of okes, a grove of pines, a grove of birches, a grove of willows (an osier-ground).
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1708) 364 It is also good..for several uses of the Turner,..which makes the Ozier Ground of very great Value,..many Ozier Grounds being let for ten Pounds per Acre.
1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 187 In Gloucerstershire, where Ozier grounds abound,..the grounds are let, under lease, to basket makers.
1852 Househ. Words 24 July 469/1 I remembered the verses in Virgil where Galatea hides herself in the osier-ground, in order to be followed and caught there.
1919 Board Agric. & Fisheries: Wages & Conditions of Employm. in Agric. II. xliii. 390/2 in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 25) IX. 207 There is a great scarcity of labour in the osier grounds, and the work is now done chiefly by women.
2001 Newsletter Greenwich Industr. Hist. Soc. (Electronic text) Nov. Later the mill buildings expanded towards Deptford Bridge and also covered the former osier ground on the east side (the Skillion site).
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