单词 | provine |
释义 | † provinev. Obsolete. intransitive and transitive. To propagate (a plant, esp. a vine) by layering. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > layer pleacha1398 provine?1440 lay1565 layer1845 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xii. 31 (MED) Now vynys sette in placis hoot & drie, Now also to prouyne is not the werst [L. propago iure ducetur]; Yong vyne, & plauntis vmbideluyng hie. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 244 Many a thyng..Mot be prouyned & kut a-way And yshape of newe entaylle. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 198 This was not the right Cinnamon-tree, but..'twas impossible to make it provine. 1772 L. de Saint Pierre Art of planting & cultivating Vine 109 Others have what they term mother-stocks, which they allow to put forth shoots, and so provine or propagate them on all sides. 1866 C. Fleming & J. Tibbins French Dict. II. 844/1 Provigner, to provine, to lay a branch of a vine in the ground to take root, to layer. DerivativesΚΠ 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. xii. 14 The father and mother sendeth them out in couples as it were by prouining or propagation. [Margin] Prouining or propagation is when a man layeth a branch of a..tree into the ground, so that it taketh roote of it selfe. 1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Provining.., laying a branch (of a vine, &c.) to take root. 1866 C. Fleming & J. Tibbins French Dict. II. 844/1 Provignement,..provining. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.?1440 |
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