单词 | ploughed-out |
释义 | > as lemmasploughed-out ploughed-out adj. carved out or cleared by ploughing; (also) obscured or eradicated by ploughing; cf. to plough out at plough v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [adjective] > obscured or destroyed by ploughing ploughed-out1851 1851 J. F. W. Johnston Lect. Applic. Chem. & Geol. to Agric. 353 Mr. Wharton..has obtained an excellent crop of potatoes from newly ploughed-out land by manuring with wood ashes only. 1945 Geogr. Jrnl. 105 54 Cemeteries occur at Eynsham, where ploughed-out barrows of two kinds have been revealed by the circular crop-markings of their ditches. 1950 Oxoniensia 15 7 Ploughed-out field-systems appear on air-photographs as a network of white lines which can often be recognized to some extent on the ground by bands of broken chalk and flints. 2003 Oxoniensia 67 13 A number of larger circular cropmarks..probably represent ploughed-out round barrows. < as lemmas |
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