单词 | rye land |
释义 | rye landn.1 Land, usually of a light or inferior quality, suitable for the cultivation of rye or where rye is cultivated; an expanse of such land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > rye-land rye land1557 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. A.iiii The redges well harrowde, or euer thou strike: is one poynt of husbandry, rye land do like. 1626 First & Best Part Scoggins Iests 79 Scogin said to the poore folke, I must goe into that corne and ease me, and I will come againe. Scogin went into a Rye land, and put off his cloake. 1671 J. Beale Let. 13 May in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1971) VIII. 53 The vulgar Husbandman, who..may by the knotted branches propagate them in ground that deserves not to be called fertile as they do in the Rye-land, and Gorsty ground. 1677 Philos. Trans. 1676 (Royal Soc.) 11 797 The..Improvement of the greatest part of Worcester, Gloucester,..Stafford and Shropshire, in all their Ryelands. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 125 A little sprinkling of Dung or Mud upon Rye-Land will mightily advance a Crop. 1761 J. Mordant Compl. Steward I. 49 It [sc. clay] is very proper for a light sandy soil, or for a light soil where a shelvy rock lies under it, and near the surface, namely, it is proper for all rye-lands. 1831 M. Roberts Ann. my Village 313 The shrill cries of wild geese are also heard, occasionally, as they leave the fens, to forage on rye-lands. 1870 W. T. Thornton On Labour (ed. 2) iv. v. 489 Besides dwellings and outhouses, their real property consisted of rye-land, vineyards, a wood, a garden, and a great many chestnut trees. 1944 R. Winston & C. Winston tr. H. E. Jacob Six Thousand Years of Bread lxi. 151 There was St. Anthony's fire, the ergot poisoning which killed off hundreds of thousands in the rye lands of Europe. 1997 Arable Farming (Nexis) 11 Nov. 44 The wheat is receiving its post-emergence treatment of Maraton..and the continuous rye land will get a shot of Glean. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11557 |
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