单词 | pastinate |
释义 | † pastinateadj. Obsolete. rare. Of land: dug, prepared for planting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > broken > dug pastinate?1440 pastinated?1440 spaded1808 delved1883 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. 50 (MED) This mone ek al thy soyles pastynate [L. pastinati] With wynes wold be filde. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 177 (MED) Now melon seed too foote atwene is sette In places wel ywrought or pastynate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021). pastinatev. Now rare. transitive and intransitive. To dig or cultivate (land) in preparation for planting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig delvec888 to dig up1377 diga1425 pastine?1440 updelvec1440 upstockc1440 hack1620 pastinate1623 repastinate1623 spit1648 spittle1727 spud1828 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii To Delue, Pastinate. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pastinate, to delve or dig in a Garden. 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Bk. Trees iii, in tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry 575 Fasten the sprig straight into earth that has been well pastinated and dunged. 1807 T. Owen tr. Palladius Fourteen Bks. Agric. ii. 73 This is the season for pastinating the ground for vines, which is done three ways, either by digging the earth wholly, or by laying it in furrows or trenches. 2013 P. Skinner Medieval Amalfi iii. 40 John..is documented in his own right as having pastinated another two pieces of land..for a group of Amalfitans in 976. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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