单词 | pooking |
释义 | pookingn. Chiefly English regional (southern and south-western). The action of making hay, wheat, corn, etc., into cocks or pooks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking cocking1575 stookingc1575 pooking1627 shocking1657 1627 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For gatherng of viij busshells of apples & for pookeing. 1635 Wilts. Rec. in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1901) I. 169 Men labourers in haymaking, pookeing, or gripping of Lent corne shall not take by the day..of wages above vd. 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 90 The price is seldom higher than eighteen-pence per acre for mowing, and one shilling for pooking, etc. 1848 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. (new ed.) 126 Thy pooken don't goo on not auver sprack. 1894 Times 14 Aug. 15/1 The relative merits of pooking and sheafing in the work of barley-harvesting are sure to present themselves for consideration. 1983 M. O'Donoghue Jedder's Land 102 That hay will need pooking at first light, for 'twill rain by afternoon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1627 |
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