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单词 to pare and burn
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to pare and burn
a. transitive. To slice turf or other vegetation from (ground or land). to pare and burn: to cut away turf to a depth of two or three inches and burn it, in order to use the ashes as manure.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > clear of turf
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > burn turf
to pare and burn1530
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 652/2 He hath pared his grounde, he loketh to have saffrone shortly.
1743 R. Maxwell Select. Trans. 17 The whole field may be fallowed, and plentifully limed; or else, which is better, pared and burnt; and a competent Quantity of Lime being added to the Ashes..it may be laid down with Grass-seeds.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 40 Seventeen acres were pared and burned in 1779.
1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Hill-farm 14 in Farm-rep. When the saintfoin plants begin to fail, which is about the sixth year, the land is pared, and burned, and sown to turnips.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 392/1 The ground is to be pared and burnt, and unslacked [sic] lime must be added to the ashes.
1996 M. Cragoe Anglican Aristocracy ii. 38 The ground would be allowed to grow a little natural herbage, after which the sward would be pared and burnt in order to prepare the ground for a wheat crop.
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