| 单词 | starve-crow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarve-crow starve-crow n. and adj. †(a) n. a piece of land that produces poor crops (obsolete); (b) adj. (of land) producing poor crops; also figurative.Attested earliest in field and place names. Cf. starve-acre n. ΚΠ 1672 J. Eachard Mr. Hobbs's State Nature Considered 112 Because Jonas Moore is not as yet come to divide, and set out the ground, and to call this piece starve-crow, and t'other long acre. 1875 W. Topley Geol. of Weald 185 The outlier of gravel near Starve Crow Farm is at its highest point 253 feet above the sea. 1923 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 18 Feb. 24/2 It was about the worst of all starve-crow farms of Continental Europe. 1925 J. M. Murry Adelphi July 143 In such fields I would gladly wander for ever, and satisfy my hunger for something more than the starve-crow criticism of poetry which we chiefly get to-day. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 124 The starvecrow days of the Revolution. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 96 Starve-crow farm, very poor farming land. < as lemmas |
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