| 单词 | bottom ground |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottom ground bottom ground n. (a) an underlying reason or principle; a basis or foundation (now rare); (b) literal low-lying land, esp. a stretch of level land near a river; = bottomland n. (now chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun] ground1340 root1340 substancec1384 fundament1395 foundationc1400 groundment?a1412 footing1440 anvila1450 bottom ground1557 groundwork1557 foot1559 platform1568 subsistence1586 subject matter1600 ground-colour1614 basisa1616 substratum1631 basement1637 bottoma1639 fonda1650 fibre1656 fund1671 fundamen1677 substruction1765 starting ground1802 fundus1839 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 102v No measure hath he of his ruth, no reason in his rage, No bottom ground where stayes his grief. 1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. ii. 64 If any man be desirous to finde out in what part of the Country the best Cedars are, he must get into the bottom grounds, and in vallies that are wet at the spring of the yeare. 1642 T. Goodwin Encouragem. Faith 25 in Christ Set Forth (1645) This being premised, as the most bottome ground of Christs being at first, and his continuing to be for ever willing to pardon sinners. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. 443 The Reason or Bottom-ground of all that Wickedness. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xii. 157 In my bottom Grounds..lying more from the Sun's influence than the Hills, the Frosts..prov'd destructive to the Fruit. 1872 Plantation 1 May 274/3 The turn-plow..should not be less than five inches on upland and eight to ten on bottom ground. 1921 Virginia Law Rev. 7 497 Is the bottom ground of exemption from taxation to be found in the fact of interstate transit? 1946 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 17 Aug. 1/2 Soybean growers..used their low-lying bottom-grounds..to give their profitable soybean fields all the advantage they could possibly get. 2014 J. E. Brown People of Flint Hills ii. 77 It [sc. an alfalfa field] sits on bottom ground along a creek that doesn't go dry. < as lemmas |
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