| 单词 | to prick in | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto prick in  17.  transitive. With adverbial complement. To plant (seeds or seedlings) in small holes made by piercing the ground at suitable intervals. Now chiefly in  to prick out. Also  to prick in: to incorporate (a fertilizer) into the top layer of soil with a fork. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants			[verb (transitive)]		 > plant in small holes prick1638 1638    tr.  F. Bacon Hist. Life & Death 82  				A young Slip, or Cions is not so well nourished, if it bee pricked into the Ground. 1664    J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in  Sylva  				Prick them forth at distances. 1664    J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 73 in  Sylva  				Prick out your Seedlings. 1712    J. James tr.  A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 179  				Make a Hole..at every Foot distance, and throw a Nut or Acorn into it; after which, you fill up the Hole again..; which is called pricking Fruit into the Ground. 1789    Ann. Agric. 11 51  				My first parcel [of seeds] was pricked in upon a small garden bed. 1850    G. Glenny Hand-bk. Flower Garden 22  				The seedlings, when grown enough, may be pricked out into small pots. 1854    Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15  ii. 408  				Cabbage plants are pricked in in March. 1870    W. Robinson Loudon's Amateur Gardener's Cal. 		(rev. ed.)	 138  				Rotten hot-bed dung is..merely ‘pricked in’, as gardeners term it, that is, incorporated only with the top stratum of the soil. 1882    Garden 21 Jan. 48/3  				The most critical time with seedling ferns is when they require pricking off for the first time. 1913    J. Weathers Twentieth-cent. Gardening vii. 67  				Annuals sown under glass are first of all ‘pricked out’ into other pots or boxes when large enough to handle. 1952    C. E. L. Phillips Small Garden vi. 55  				When the youngsters have developed their first pair of true leaves, prick them off into other boxes or pots. 1960    Times 20 Feb. 9/4  				Perennial crops..should be given a good dressing of fertilizer lightly pricked into the soil before growth commences. 1990    Pract. Gardening Nov. 70/3  				Prick out into trays or 3in (7.5cm) pots and plant out in the autumn. < as lemmas | 
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