| 单词 | to be at the plough |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be at the plough b. to be at the plough: to be engaged in ploughing or farming. to follow (also hold) the plough: to till the land; to work as a farmer or ploughman. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] eareOE ploughc1450 to be at the ploughc1535 to take stitch1600 to plough out1643 to plough upa1895 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] > be ploughman to follow (also hold) the plough1568 c1535 Ploughman's Tale i. sig. B.iv What knoweth a tyllour at the plowe The popes name. 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. f. 146v Hee returned home again, to folow the plough. 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie i. iii. sig. B4v In stead of poaring on a booke, you shall holde the plough. 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 139 Our force lies most dispersed at the Plow, Vnready, rude, and oft rebellious too. 1660 J. Gauden Mem. Bp. Brounrigg 159 To rusticate (as Elisha sometimes did) among plain people that follow the Plough. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 287 The celebrated Mr. Vareinge, professor of mathematics, followed the plough till he was eight and twenty years of age. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxx, in Poems 20 A country fellow at the pleugh. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 330 His boys followed the plough; and his girls went out to service. 1887 J. Farrell How he Died 87 The best thing she could do Was to go back..and marry The joskin that followed the plough. 1917 Kelso Chron. 5 Oct. 4 It was his constant practice, I believe, when at the plough, to lay the remains of his ‘nacket’ of home-made bread and ewe-milk cheese at the end of his ‘landing’..[etc.]. 1995 Courier-Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 22 Sept. The Hoey family has followed the plough for 90 years. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。