| 单词 | ploughed-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasploughed-up ploughed-up adj. broken up by ploughing; (figurative) roughly cut up, furrowed, scratched deeply; cf. to plough out at plough v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [adjective] > ploughed drivena1225 eareda1300 ploughed-up1639 1639 L. Lawrence tr. San Pedro de Diego Small Treat. betwixt Arnalte & Lucenda 14 Wee see the pretty rising Hillocks stand, Or as the furrowes of the plowd up Land. a1684 Duchess of Newcastle Treasure of Knowl. i. 13 in A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. (1766) They go to sow the seed in the ploughed-up ground. 1790 tr. Ovid Metamorphoseon vii. 189 He then takes up the dragon's teeth in a brazen helmet, and strews them over the ploughed-up field. 1837 E. S. Wortley Hours at Naples 67 When slaughtered victims pressed the ploughed up ground. 1920 J. Masefield Enslaved 120 From these ploughed-up souls the spirit brings Harvest at last. 1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning v. 82 You can't turn plowed-up shortgrass prairie back into the original terrain. < as lemmas |
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