单词 | ribbling |
释义 | > as lemmasribbling ribbling n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > furrow > methods of turning furrow henting?a1605 veering1733 ribbling1770 casting1825 cut-and-cover1839 back-striking1844 gathering1846 1770 A. Young Course Exper. Agric. I. i. i. 15 This half-plowing in Suffolk is called ribbling. 1804 A. Young Farmer's Cal. 344 What an immense improvement is this upon the common slovenly custom of Norfolk, of ribbling, or half, or bastard-ploughing such layers. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 288 Another system of fallowing is adopted by many, namely, that of ‘ribbling’; this is done by turning a furrow to the unploughed land, and, in returning, to turn over this furrow and the earth upon which the first furrow was laid. < as lemmas |
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