| 单词 | to plough down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto plough down to plough down transitive. extracted from ploughplowv. 1. To plough in to the earth; (also) to level by ploughing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > bury by ploughing to plough down1743 to plough in1764 to plough under1827 1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 34 Sow the Rye above the Dung, plow it down with an ebb Fur, (which is termed under-fur Sowing). 1765 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) i. xv. 126 On a part of a field where whins were plowed down. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Useful Projects109/2 That unlevel pastures may be ploughed down without any injury. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. I. 258 To plough down clover ley in a pretty rough state as a most advantageous preparation for wheat. 1869 D. Mackintosh Scenery Eng. & Wales iv. ii. 89 Many terraces are still cultivated but..there is..a general desire to plough down the ‘lynchets’ (as they are locally called), and..formerly their number was much greater than at present. 1918 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1006. 2 This jointworm can be controlled in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky by plowing down wheat stubble deeply after harvest. 1949 A. E. Trueman Geol. & Scenery Eng. & Wales x. 139 Major Gordon Fowler who has called attention to these sinuous silt banks believes that many have been ploughed down. 2003 Arable Farming (Nexis) 19 Aug. 42 The situation will then improve as about 75 per cent of black-grass seed ploughed down will loose viability each year. 2. To run over or into with a heavy ploughing action, to grind down; (figurative) to demolish, destroy. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > crush > trample down treadc825 oftreadeOE fortreadc1000 overrunOE treadc1000 fulla1400 trample1530 trachlec1550 betrample1567 hobnail1875 to plough down1877 steamroll1900 steamroller1913 1877 Harper's Bazar 28 July 475/4 The anchored schooners and smacks on the Great Bank, any one of which would be ploughed down by this huge vessel. 1955 Times 17 May 4/4 The jury must..have been quite satisfied Murtagh intended to plough down one or other of these people. 1995 C. Sagan Demon-haunted World xiv. 257 We find an army of old ideas plowed down by an armamentarium of new facts. < as lemmas |
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