单词 | to beat-burn |
释义 | > as lemmasto beat-burn The rough sod of moorland (with its heath, gorse, etc.), or the matted growth of fallow land, which is sliced or pared off, and burned (at once to get rid of it and to make manure), when the land is about to be ploughed. See Eng. Dial. Soc. B. vi. p. 70. to beat-burn, also burn-beat v.: to treat land in this way. to lie to beat: to lie fallow till covered with a matted growth of grass and weeds which may be thus pared off and burned. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [verb (intransitive)] > burn turf to beat-burn1620 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > lie fallow [verb (intransitive)] > lie fallow atliec1000 resta1382 to lie to beat1620 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > vegetable refuse beat-borough1602 beat1620 trumpery1669 wrack1715 1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husb. (1649) 22 After you have thus burnt your baite and plowed up your ground. 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry xxi. 145 To breake vp Pease earth, which is to lye to baite [1668 bait]. 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 323 Beat, the roots and soil subjected to the operation of ‘burning beat’. 1830 A. E. Bray Fitz of Fitz-ford II. v. 106 The burning of bate, as it is called; a mode of manuring land, known elsewhere by the name of denshiring. 1864 E. Capern Devon Provincialism Beat or Bate, the spine of old fallow lands. 1885 F. T. Elworthy (in letter) A field is described as ‘all to a beat’ when it has become matted with weeds, especially couch-grass or twitch. < as lemmas |
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