| 单词 | to fold off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fold off c. To bend or turn back or down (a portion of something). †to fold off: to bend back and break off. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off > by bending back to fold offc1420 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 774 Or me sette him [a graft] in the tree The tendron and the leves of thou folde. to fold off 2. To place sheep in a fold or folds upon (a piece of ground), for the purpose of manuring it. to fold off: to use (a crop) as pasture for folded sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > dung > by putting animals on land tathec1440 fold1671 sheep1808 fold-tread1854 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 1671 St. Foine Improved 3 The Men of the Vale might..desire that those of the Hill-country might not Fold, or Dung their Ground, or Sow any Corn. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry ii. i. 131 Two contiguous pieces of ground..had been folded. 1794 J. Boys Gen. View Agric. Kent 37 The clover being again folded off. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 340 When his grass-fields have been partially folded with sheep. < as lemmas |
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