单词 | pulls |
释义 | pullsn.1 English regional (Yorkshire). The chaff or husks of rapeseed, pulses, or grain. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > husk(s) of chaffc1000 sheeling?a1513 pulls1788 1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 40 The seed is cured..in the chaff or pods—provincially, ‘pulls’. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Pulls, the husks of oats. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. (at cited word) The shells or husks of beans, peas, rape and other seeds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pullsn.2 Now English regional (Yorkshire). Short pieces of straw left as refuse after straight straw has been drawn (see draw v. 43); = pull-tails n. at pull- comb. form 1c. Also: heads of corn broken off from stalks during threshing. ΚΠ 1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 268 The straw here weighed..does not include the short and broken, which goes away in what is technically termed ‘falls’ or pulls. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Pulls, most usually applied to the heads of corn dispersed on a barn-floor, after thrashing. 1994 A. Kellett Yorks. Dict. 142/2 Pulls, short straw produced by threshing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11788n.21844 |
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