| 单词 | shim-plough |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshim-plough 2. In full shim-plough: A kind of horse-hoe or shallow plough, used in Kent and elsewhere, for hoeing up weeds between rows of beans, hops, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > mattock, hoe, or hack > hoe > horse-hoe shim1723 hoe-plough1731 horse-hoe1731 hoe-break1742 nidget1743 hop-shim1807 idget1875 1723 [see sense 1]. c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Shim, an horse-how. 1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May iii. 56 The Sheim or Prong-Plough. 1754 R. Pococke Trav. (Camden) II. 88 [In the Isle of Thanet] They have a particular way of cleaning the ground sown with beans, with a machine call'd a shim, with irons at such a distance, that two go between the rows, and turn up the earth on each side against the beans. 1792 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 3 33 Horse-hoed the intervals with a Berkshire shim, which cuts the surface, but turns no furrow. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 880 In the drill-sown lucern some recommend..the passing of a small shim between them. 1892 Auctioneer's Catal. Farm Sale near Minster, Kent 148 Pop shim, 149 Iron single shim, 150 5 furrow corn shim. < as lemmas |
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