| 单词 | summer-working |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer-working summer-working n. now chiefly English regional (north-western) (a piece of) land lain fallow for a summer; (also) †the action or an act of ploughing fallow land in the summer (obsolete); cf. summer work n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation > fallowing summer fallow1601 winter fallow1601 fallowing1610 summer fallowing1610 foiling1616 pin fallow1688 winter-fallowing1707 summer-working1778 bare-fallowing1829 summer work1886 1778 Ess. Divided Commons ii. 86 The course of Summer working, when the soil is reduced to a proper tilth. 1793 J. H. Campbell in Ann. Agric. 20 124 The fallows (or summer-workings) are tumbled over by the plough, and jingled over by harrows. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 263 Rotation of different crops, fallowing, summer-working. 1919 G. W. Hendry Mariout Barley (Coll. of Agric. Exper. Station, Berkeley, Calif.: Bull. 312) 86 California grain lands, however, are..uncommonly weedy, and an occasional summer working of the fallow to clean it is..necessary to secure the best results. 1962 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. i. 136 Q[uestion]. What do you call land that you have ploughed but that you leave unsown for some time? [Lancashire] Summer-working. < as lemmas |
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