单词 | reafforest |
释义 | reafforestv.ΚΠ 1667–8 Act 19 & 20 Chas. II c. 8 §5 All the other Waste Lands aforesaid shall be and are hereby reafforrested and shall from henceforth be governed by Forrest Law. 1779 S. Rudder New Hist. Gloucestershire 31/1 By this act the waste lands of the forest are reafforested, and are to be governed by forest laws. 2. transitive. Chiefly British. To cover again with forest; to replant with trees; = reforest v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > plant with trees setc1290 arbust1623 co-afforest1655 wood1807 retimber1828 reafforest1834 reforest1836 afforest1843 forest1865 reforestize1890 tree1891 1834 T. D. Lauder Gilpin's Remarks Forest Scenery (new ed.) II. 65 The Civil War put an end to the patent; and the enclosures which had been made were thrown down, and the whole reafforested. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Aug. 5/1 The great importance of reafforesting the denuded soil in over-cleared countries. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 313 As treeless as Portugal we'll be soon..if something is not to reafforest the land. 1991 J. D. Matthews Silvicultural Syst. vi. 88 Oak was among the first species employed to re-afforest clear cut areas and many fine oak stands were raised by dibbling acorns. Derivatives reaˈfforesting n. ΚΠ 1890 W. Meynell J. H. Newman 2 His scheme for the reafforesting of England. 2002 R. J. Allison Appl. Geomorphol. (2003) xxii. 412 Moreover, landslide consolidation and reafforesting have been executed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1667 |
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