† stirreen.
dialect. Obsolete.
A light cross furrow ploughing of a fallow. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > light ploughing
spitting1594
stirree1733
skirting1796
hen-scratching1844
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 55 A Fallow and a Stirree is enough for a Chalk.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 308 The more industrious Man will give his Wheat Land a Fallow in April, and two Stirrees between that and sowing time.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 319 This is the strongest and largest Plough..imployed at Fallow and Stirree Times.
Derivatives
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > plough lightly
shoal1670
scratch1697
stirree1742
skirtc1795
skim1799
riffle1804
skim-plough1807
hen-scratch1872
scratch-plough1926
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June ii. 21 They stirree it the Beginning of this Month.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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