| 单词 | raking over |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraking over a. The action of rake v.2 (in various senses). Also with adverbs, as raking down, raking over, raking together. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > raking raking1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 422 Rakynge, rastratura. 1474–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 95 Pro..le rakyng circa muros coquine. 1550 R. Crowley Way to Wealth sig. Bv Howe you have obeyed the lawes in rakeinge together of fermes. 1579 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 80 To James Ȝuill gardiner for raiking and making of the kirk flure xvj s. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. xi. 150 There would be foul raking in the dust. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables clxxxviii. 158 That which Some call Good Husbandry, Industry and Providence, Others call Raking, Avarice, and Oppression. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. Gg3 This is frequently called raking fore and aft. 1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 92 Much labour..is bestowed, in the raking, picking and burning of weeds. 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows ii. xv. 111 The raking of the guns across The world. 1881 Gardeners' Chron. No. 411. 626 The raking of an adequate quantity of Oak and Chestnut leaves and carting them to the leaf-coop, with which to make up hotbeds, etc. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 8 There should be full scale raking down of land and sowing. 1988 M. Forster Elizabeth Barrett Browning xii. 202 That endless self-analysis, that constant raking over of the past which provided the ground upon which she worked. < as lemmas |
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