| 单词 | to eat off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat off to eat off 1. To take off or remove by eating. ΚΠ 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 175 Some Theeves have eat off their Irons..with Mercury water. 2. To clear off (a crop) by feeding it to cattle: said also of the cattle. Also intransitive (for passive) of a crop. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (transitive)] eatc825 to-fret?c1225 vourc1330 dinec1380 to eat inc1450 engorge1541 tooth1579 canvass1602 get1603 eat1607 manger1609 upeat1630 dispatch1711 feed1725 yam1725 to eat off1733 repartake1751 patter1803 chop1833 smouse1840 to stow away1858 to put oneself outside ——1865 to get outside ——1876 to feed down1887 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > eat off crop to eat off1733 spend1733 verdage1778 to fold off1794 hog1845 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming i. 28 One of our best Farmers..eat off his Turneps early, and chalked his Ground well. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xxv. 79 We eat it [sc. coleseed] off with sheep..to make them fit for the butcher. 1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 i. 126 Nitrate of soda may be sown..on pasture that does not eat off regularly. 1921 W. E. Heitland Agricola 266 Stock must be kept on the farm, partly to eat off your own fodder-crops. < as lemmas |
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