单词 | bouting |
释义 | boutingn. (See quot.) Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] eartheOE earingOE ploughing1374 fallowing1426 labouragec1475 ardagh1483 eara1500 fallowa1500 arder1581 waining1585 stitch1600 caruage1610 furrow1610 till1647 aration1663 bouting1733 breast-ploughing1754 prairie-breaking1845 sodbusting1965 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xxxviii. 311 Bouting, or Bouting-up, is a Half-ploughing of the Ground. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xxxviii. 312 Bouting-down, is done by making a shallow Thorough on each Side of the Ridge of the Bout. 1786 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 43 The field..is divided into 3 parts, by bouting Rows running crossways. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 224 Sometimes (in ploughing land) two ridges are set up against each other, which is called ridging or bouting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1733 |
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