英语词汇“to prick out”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)] > plant in small holes

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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.

b. intransitive. to prick out: to appear as specks or points.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible > as specks

to prick out1919

1919 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 24 Dec. 4/5 A heavy dun-colored mist hung over the Windy City and the electric lights pricked out eerily.

1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xx. 305 By two o'clock a few stars had pricked out, tiny candles shaking between the drifting gloom of clouds.

1936 Nashua (Iowa) Reporter 24 June That fine beading of sweat pricked out on his forehead again.

1983 R. Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills (1984) xii. 96 The last dregs of light had drained away, and the first stars pricked out in a sky of witchball green.

单词	to prick out
释义	> as lemmas to prick out 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. extracted from prickv. to prick out b. intransitive. to prick out: to appear as specks or points. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible > as specks to prick out1919 1919 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 24 Dec. 4/5 A heavy dun-colored mist hung over the Windy City and the electric lights pricked out eerily. 1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xx. 305 By two o'clock a few stars had pricked out, tiny candles shaking between the drifting gloom of clouds. 1936 Nashua (Iowa) Reporter 24 June That fine beading of sweat pricked out on his forehead again. 1983 R. Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills (1984) xii. 96 The last dregs of light had drained away, and the first stars pricked out in a sky of witchball green. extracted from prickv. < as lemmas
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