| 单词 | seeding time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseeding time seeding time n. = seed time n.; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > time of year > season for specific agricultural operation seedOE seed timeOE season1393 barley-selec1440 seednessc1450 seeding timea1594 turf-time1594 tid1799 a1594 R. Greenham Wks. (1599) 336 Now, if any shall here further inquire, whether in seeding time, or the haruest season, when the times before haue been and still are like to be vnseasonable and vntemperate, they may somewhat on the Sabboth giue themselues to sowing, or gathering of their corne: I answere, No. 1613 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 184 Harvest and seeding tyme. 1790 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 42 We are yet but in the seeding time of national prosperity, and it will be well not to mortgage the crop before it is gathered. 1838 Intellect. Repository May 113 The period of youth, which may be appropriately denominated ‘the mental seeding time’. 1907 B. Hunter Farm Pract. in Columbia Basin Uplands 22 By seeding time in the spring the winter rains have settled the soil sufficiently to form a good, firm seed bed. 2015 Murray Valley (Austral.) Standard (Nexis) 12 Nov. I used to wear coveralls a lot, particularly at seeding time on open tractors with no cabs. < as lemmas |
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