| 单词 | to swim fair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto swim fair b. Of a plough (in full, to swim fair): To go steadily (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] > of plough: plough > steadily prevaricate1788 swim1797 1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 75/1 When the plough goes on steadily, without any effort of the ploughman, it is said to be in trim, and to swim fair. 1842 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3 ii. 357 The action of the plough was in no way deranged by that of the slicers; it ‘swam fair’ on the furrow bottom. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 435 This plough, with its sole upon the surface of two years' old lea, and the coulter alone in the soil, the bridle having been adjusted to make it swim without any undue tendency. < as lemmas |
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