α. Old English rip-tima.
β. Middle English rep-tyme, 1800s– reap-time.
单词 | reap-time |
释义 | reap-timen.α. Old English rip-tima. β. Middle English rep-tyme, 1800s– reap-time. Now rare. = reaping time n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest-time harvest902 harvest monthc1000 reap-timeOE harvest-tidec1175 harvest time1362 reaping timea1382 shaking time1658 picking time1799 OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 30 Lætaþ ægþer weaxan oð riptiman & on þam riptiman ic secge þam riperum, gadriaþ ærest þone coccel. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxvi. 1 What maner snoȝ in somer, and reyn in rep tyme [a1425 L.V. heruest; L. messe]. 1895 W. V. Byars Tannhäuser ii. 102 She ripens in her reaptime her grain's gold for the sheaf. 1958 D. Walcott Sea at Dauphin 17 You break your back for seventy cane reap times And then is ashes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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