单词 | roughet |
释义 | roughetn. English regional. 1. A field overgrown with bracken or bushes; a stretch of waste land. Also: a copse. In later use sometimes in the names of such pieces of ground. Cf. rough n.1 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] westerneOE weste landOE wastinea1175 westec1175 wastec1200 wildernc1200 wildernessc1200 wildernessc1230 warlottc1290 forestc1320 wastyc1325 deserta1398 wastern?a1400 wildnessa1513 the wilds of1600 vastness1605 vastacy1607 roughet1616 wild1637 wildland1686 bush1780 wastage1823 mesquite1834 wasteland1887 mulga1896 virgin bush1905 boondock1944 boonies1954 virgin land1955 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > other fields broom-fieldc1314 summer field1597 roughet1616 share acre1641 work field1684 town park1701 tath-field1753 town1822 gas field1833 summer country1860 broom-croft1871 infield1875 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove hurst822 grove889 wood bough?c1225 wood lay?c1225 wood lind?c1225 wood rise?c1225 spring1396 firth?a1400 berwec1440 spring?c1475 grovet1504 coppice1538 copsewood1543 sherwood1562 hewt1575 copse1578 grove-crop1582 berrie1591 low wood1591 spinney1597 spinet1604 spring wood1607 roughet1616 oart1690 toft1706 under-grove1731 bosket1737 busket1803 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Douce 170) (1888) i. iv. 47 Right perfect in the skilles Of ridinge goiles, plaines, ruffetes, dales, and hills. 1785 W. Marshall Planting & Ornamental Gardening 607 At a distance, a roughet of coppice wood, and the most elegant arrangement of flowering shrubs. 1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. I. 236 The old well timbered woods.., have,..got up fortuitously from seedling-plants, rising in neglected roughets. 1836 F. Witts Diary 13 July (1978) 116 Corn and pasture fields, separated by natural clumps of oak trees, here called roughets. 1888 Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 157 Here several large bushes grow in a steep roughet overhanging the river. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 88 Roughet, ruffit, rough ground; ground overgrown with bracken and scrub. (S. Her.) 1993 Jrnl. Ecol. 81 817/1 The only carr containing Peucedanum on the Somerset Levels (west of the Roughet at Shapwick Heath). 2. Coarse dried grass left on pasturelands as winter fodder for cattle. Cf. rowet n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > aftercrop > aftermath edgrewc1440 rowen1440 eddish1468 aftermath1496 lattermath1510 after-pasturec1541 fog1570 roughingsc1575 etch1580 aftergrass1587 eddish-grass1610 edge-growth1610 eatagea1642 lattermowth1661 eegrass1669 ear-grass1686 etch-crop1704 after-mowth1711 afterfeed1714 roweta1722 rowety grassa1722 aftergrowth1766 foggage1775 after-eatage1781 roughet1890 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester [Hundred of Berkeley] Roughet, rough dried grass left on pasture land. 1926 V. Sackville-West Land 20 Shall the poor Roughets stand this year for hay? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616 |
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