| 单词 | trench-dig |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrench-dig trench-dig v. Agriculture and Horticulture (now rare) transitive to cultivate (land) by digging parallel trenches; cf. trench v. 3b, bastard trench v. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig > double-dig trench-dig1770 bastard trench1838 double-dig1842 1770 A. Young Six Months Tour N. Eng. IV. xxviii. 162 The preparation he recommends is prodigiously expensive, more so, I apprehend, than trench digging land two feet deep. 1807 ‘A. McDonald’ Compl. Dict. Pract. Gardening at Ridging of Ground It is accomplished by trench-digging the ground over, laying the earth of each trench in a raised, rough ridge, lengthways. 1846 Mr. Burrows in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 153 I have often had fine crops [of carrots] upon poor soils by trench-digging the land to the depth of twenty inches. 2013 H. Yemm Gardening in Pyjamas v. 92 Not everyone has the time, the strength or the inclination to trench-dig their gardens. < as lemmas |
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