单词 | to go a-nutting |
释义 | > as lemmasto go a-nutting a. The action of gathering nuts. Frequently in to go a-nutting, to go nutting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > nut-gathering nutting1824 nut-gathering1829 chestnutting1875 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore v. ii. 301 Whether gad you? A nutting forsooth. 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 71. 561 Topsy turvey the Devil's gone a nutting; and his Dam to Wood. 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 346 You speak in clusters, you were begot in nutting. 1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 197 Last week 3 clippers were taken in the very act in a wood.., being discovered by a boy a nutting. 1765 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) I. iv. 145 Sometime before this, the Footman had joined his young Lord, with the several Implements requisite for Nutting. 1824 L. L. Cameron Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars (new ed.) vii. 45 A set of wild chaps ticed me..to go a-nutting with them. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 624 A schoolboy who goes nutting in the wood of a neighbour. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 4 Who would often leave off their nutting or bird's-nesting to peep in at the window of the stone cottage. 1904 C. S. Darrow Farmington 141 With what infinite pains and unbounded hopes we prepared to go nutting in the woods! 1978 Audubon Sept. 50/1 We are going a-nutting. 1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 4 Nov. 15 c In autumn children would go nutting. Walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts and a few hazelnuts could be gathered. < as lemmas |
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