| 单词 | to plough in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto plough in to plough in transitive. To embed or bury (manure, vegetation, seed, etc.) in the soil by ploughing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] eareOE till1377 plough1423 break1499 sheugh1513 ayrec1540 to break up1557 furrow1576 spit1648 whelm1652 manage1655 hack1732 thorough1733 to plough in1764 rout1836 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 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 172 When a farmer intends to plow in his vetches, I would..advise him to do it some weeks before he sows his wheat. 1792 E. L'Hommedieu Exper. on Manures in Trans. Soc. Promotion of Useful Arts 64 There appears to be no material difference in the crop produced from the weed taken directly from the creek and ploughed in, and that taken from the heap. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 62 Others spread the dung on the surface and plough it in. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 388/2 The seed appears to have been sometimes ploughed in, and at other times to have been covered by harrowing. 1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. xiii. 183 In the famous Norfolk rotation of roots, barley, clover and wheat, the clover roots are ploughed in once every four years as green manure. 1981 B. Head Serowe xxiii. 153 The seed was first broadcast on the land and then ploughed in. < as lemmas |
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