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单词 to sow under the furrow
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to sow under the furrow
a. A narrow trench made in the earth with a plough, esp. for the reception of seed. to sow under the furrow (see quot. ?1523 at α. ).to spare neither ridge nor furrow: a proverbial phrase in Middle English poems expressive of reckless speed on the part of a rider.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > furrow
furrowc888
vorec1380
scratching1548
henting?a1605
voor1669
thorough1732
gaw1793
dead furrow1838
sheugh1844
mould furrow1851
back-furrow1855
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c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. §2 Þonne dysegaþ se þe þonne wile hwilc sæd oþfæstan þam drium furum.
955 Charter of Eadred in Birch Cartul. Sax. III. 70 Andlang weges to ðære gedrifonan furh, andlang fyrh oþ hit cymð [etc.].
c1220 Bestiary 398 [This der] goð o felde to a furȝ, and falleð ðar-inne..forto bilirten fuȝeles.
c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 12 No man yit knew the forwes of his lond.
c1440 Bone Flor. 746 He stroke the stede with the spurrys, He spared nodur rygge nor forows.
a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 47 Yeff [ye] sowe your lande vnder þe foroughe let it be ereyd.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xviii Whete is moost commenly sowen vnder the forow, that is to say cast it vpon the falowe, and than plowe it vnder.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L2 A man..shuld take his plow, & go draw a furrow in a field.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 120 The lab'ring Swain Scratch'd with a Rake, a Furrow for his Grain. View more context for this quotation
1728 J. Thomson Spring 3 The well-us'd Plow Lies in the Furrow.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 60 The straitest furrow lifts the ploughman's heart.
1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 365 The chief furrows, which conduct the choaked-up water, are always laid out by the agriculturist himself.
1883 Macfadyen in Congregational Year Bk. 47 The furrow is uneven because an ox and an ass draw the plough.
β. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1565 Þay..Ne spared rigges noþer vores til þay mette þat pray.1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 405 The suerd flaw fra him a fur breid on the land.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iv. 20 A lityll fur, To mark the fundment of his new citie.c1600 J. Dymmok Treat. Ireland (1842) 42 Men..hidd themselves lyke fearefull hares in the furres.a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 46 The furre on your lefte hande is the best for the fore furre, for then the corne falleth the fittest for the hande.1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xi. 214 The plough will..go upon the points of the irons, which will make her..make a bad fur.1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 21 I wad..turn sic furs on the bonny rigs o' Milnwood holms, that it wad be worth a pint but to look at them.1877–89 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Fur, a furrow. ‘Th' furs was all full o' watter on pag-rag daay, an' soa th' taaties rotted.’
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