单词 | unmanurable |
释义 | unmanurableadj. Agriculture. Now rare. Of land: that cannot be worked or cultivated. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective] > uncultivable unmanurable1592 uncultivable1663 unplantable1683 untillable1714 irreclaimable1814 unculturable1860 uncultivatable1870 1592 Acts Privy Council (1901) XXIII. 114 That he have wood, bog and unmanurable landes allowed him in as lardge manner as anie the Undertakers in like case have had. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 799 [Land] rough and as it were un-manurable. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. vii The quantity of Acres are..: Manurable 6,100,000; Unmanurable 100,000. 1928 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 37 236 It is on the unploughable, unmanurable hill country—land that has been under beech forest..and coastal scrub country—that ratstail undoubtedly has a place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1592 |
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