单词 | rest-balk |
释义 | rest-balkn. Now historical and rare. A ridge left unploughed between two furrows, esp. one resulting from the process of raftering or ribbing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > rib rest-balk?1523 rig1639 rick1641 rib1670 sleeving1732 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iiv A rest balke is where the plough byteth at the poynt of the culture and share and cutteth nat the grounde clene to the forowe that was plowed last before, but leueth a lytell rigge standyng bytwene. 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry vii. 54 Plow it [sc. your ground] againe in such manner as you did the second time, that is to say, very deepe, cleane, and after the manner of good Husbandry, without any rest balkes or other disorders. 1669 J. Blagrave Epitome Art of Husbandry 5 The knowledge of the tempering of the Plough is very expedient and necessary for a Husbandman, that he may plough and turn clean, and make no Rest-balks. 1780 Lett. & Papers on Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) I. 55 In May repeat the harrowing, and turn it up with a fine rist baulk. 1794 A. Young in A. Driver & W. Driver Gen. View Agric. Hants. 68 Also raftering the land, which is a sort of rest baulk ploughing. 1815 T. Quayle Gen. View Agric. Islands on Coast of Normandy 265 In February or March, but the earlier the better, the rice-balks are harrowed down. 1878 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 14 598 Part of the stubble land is frequently left unploughed till the spring; being then ‘raftered’, ‘rist-baulk’ ploughed, or half-ploughed. 1931 B. A. Keen Physical Properties Soil i. 4 It was also necessary to guard against ‘rest-baulks’—the name given to little ridges of uncut soil that were left between each furrow if the setting of coulter and share were incorrect—as these were a source of weeds later on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † rest-balkv. Obsolete. transitive. To plough (land) with rest-balks; esp. to rib; to rafter. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > rib rest-balk?1523 rafter1724 rib1735 slob-furrow1796 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv Make a depe holowe forowe in the rigge of the lande and loke well, thou rest balke it nat. 1760 T. Hitt Treat. Husbandry ii. 101 In the space of twenty or thirty days after rest-balking the land, the greatest part of the grass will be killed. 1804 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Norfolk 274 Mr. Cubit..found it better to rise baulk or riffle. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 158 Another practice here, is to vell or wrest-balk at Midsummer. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 218 Directly after the hay is carted, the land is rise-baulked or rafter-ploughed. 1893 R. M. Garnier Hist. Eng. Landed Interest II. xix. 438 The olland..was pared, wrest-balked, harrowed, and ploughed. Derivatives rest-balking n. ΚΠ 1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 142 In rice-balking, the ‘flag’ is always turned toward the unplowed ground. 1814 Gen. Rep. Agric. State & Polit. Circumstances Scotl. I. vii. 350 This antiquated mode of half ploughing, was termed ribbing, or rice-baulking, and is now rarely met with in well-cultivated districts. 1877 W. Wing Brief Ann. Bicester Poor Law Union 75 He approved breast ploughing when it is broken up, and rest baulking afterwards. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.?1523v.?1523 |
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