单词 | plaster sick |
释义 | > as lemmasplaster sick plaster sick adj. (of land) made less fertile by overuse of plaster of Paris. ΚΠ 1839 H. Colman 2nd Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 42 He says he knows nothing of land becoming, as it is termed, plaster-sick. c1926 A. O. Craven Soil Exhaustion as Factor in Agric. Hist. Virginia & Maryland, 1606–1860 112 Lands were soon being declared ‘clover’ and ‘plaster sick’. < as lemmas |
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