| 单词 | to send hogs a shackling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto send hogs a shackling 1. transitive. To lay (standing corn); also, to litter, disorder (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). Also to send hogs a shackling, to send them to feed in the stubble (cf. shack n.1, shack v.1). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [verb (transitive)] > damaged crop lay1590 lodge1597 reta1642 shackle1670 sloom1762 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed or fatten pigs brawn1655 swilla1722 to send hogs a shackling1790 pork1877 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [verb (intransitive)] > pasture pigs on stubble to send hogs a shackling1790 shack1867 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 83 Every Neighbour's Horse or Cow, that breaks their hedges, or shackles their Corn. 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) at Shacking To send hogs a shackling, to send hogs to feed in the stubble. Essex. 1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) After some heavy rain the corn is ‘so shackled that you cannot reap it’. < as lemmas |
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