单词 | summer-sown |
释义 | > as lemmassummer-sown (b) Modifying past participial adjectives and verbs relating to agriculture, horticulture, food production, etc., with the sense ‘in or during the summer’, as summer-fed, summer-sown, etc., adjectives; summer feed v.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately at Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1609 W. Symonds Virginia: Serm. 20 He hath rotten sheepe to sell at Michaelmas: his sommer fed oxen at Easter. 1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. i. 13 The Worm can't breed so soon in a Summer-fell'd Tree, as in a Winter-fell'd one. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 190 13 acres of marsh at Grimsby, that summer-feeds 14 bullocks. 1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 92 Proper marks were put to distinguish the winter-felled from the summer-felled poles. 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 346 It enables the farmer to make his summer-threshed straw into dung. 1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 32 Imperfect fermentation..causes acidity and other faults in summer-brewed beers. 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms To skeer, to mow lightly over, applied to pastures, which have been summer fed. 1842 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. iv. 168 This..increases the quantity of your summer-made manure. 1946 Science 8 Nov. 438/1 The carotenoids in summer-harvested, blanched, dehydrated carrots may be stabilized by certain antioxidants. 1991 Jrnl. Ecol. 79 286 In regularly summer-mown fens there may be no obvious trend of species richness against maximum above-ground crop mass. 2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Aug. a10/5 The harvest in October of summer-sown crops like rice. < as lemmas |
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