| 单词 | potato pen |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato pen potato pen n. †(a) (originally Nautical) a compartment for storing vegetables so that they remain fresh (obsolete); (b) a tall fenced enclosure filled with soil in which potatoes are grown in multiple layers. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Potato-pen, a wooden compartment or pen on deck, built with a view to thorough ventilation, for keeping potatoes and other vegetables during a voyage. 1895 G. T. Ridlon Saco Valley Settlem. & Families 70 Uncle Eben led his company..down into cellar and showed them his well-filled potato-pens. 1918 N.Y. State Fruit Grower Mar. 3/1 Three years ago he built what he called a ‘potato pen’, which was nothing more or less than a huge potato hill, the sides of which were supported by a loosely constructed enclosure... Within this enclosure..he planted his potatoes in thin layers of dirt and manure. 1936 Progressive Grocer Mar. 116/2 He entered the contest with his improvised potato-pen and won it. 2010 @AskJoanMorris 25 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Squirrels decimating our potato pen so we had an early harvest and still got two grocery bags full. < as lemmas |
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