单词 | to sow to |
释义 | > as lemmasto sow (land) to (a crop) a. transitive. To scatter seed on or upon (land, etc.) in order that it may grow; to supply with seed. Also, to sow (land) to (a crop). Cf. put v. 31b, plant v. 5d. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow land sowc825 seedlOE seed1834 c825 Vesp. Psalter cvi. 37 [Hie] seowun lond. c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxiii Swa hwa swa wille sawan westmbære land. c1000 Ælfric Leviticus xix. 19 Ne saw þu þinne æcyr mid gemengedum sæde. a1250 Prov. Ælfred 123 Þey o mon ahte huntseuenti Acres, and he hi hadde isowen alle myd reade golde. And þat gold greowe [etc.]. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10195 Þe king þo..vorbed þat me ne ssolde non of is lond sowe. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cvi. 37 Þai sew feldis and þai plantid vyners. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xlvii. 23 Takith seedis, and sowith feeldis, that ȝe mowen han lyuelodis. 1456–70 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 26/2 The lardis of Meldrum has gart eyre and saw owr said landis of Canty. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hi After that he tempereth it with dong, than eareth it, soweth it, and haroweth it. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 44v When you meane to let your ground lye againe for Meddowe or Pasture, your best is to sowe it with Oates. 1660 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 158 I shall want a little hay dust to sow the holes in the parsnage yard. 1735 S. Johnson tr. J. Lobo Voy. Abyssinia 47 They neither Sow their Lands, nor improve them by any kind of Culture. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 298 Cost and Profit of Clearing and Sowing with Wheat 10 Acres of Intervale Land. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 177 In a field of eleven acres,..the whole was sowed with barley. 1939 Sun (Baltimore) 4 July 16/2 There will be no possibility of spreading the galls to land that is sown to wheat or rye. 1972 Morning Star 4 Jan. 4/1 This was cattle-breeding country, with a dairy produce industry and with only about 75,000 acres sown to grain. < as lemmas |
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