| 单词 | vine-prop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvine-prop vine-prop n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > stake for vine vine-prop1601 pedament1704 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. Table s.v. Vine props and railes which be best. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vi. ix. 251 First, was carryed..a pine apple, and a vine-prop. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis Others make use of a Vine-prop, or some other Piece of Wood. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. xiv. 438 The upright putrescent espaliers or vine-props. vine-prop (b) With verbal nouns or participial adjectives, as vine-bearing, vine-dressing, vine-growing, etc.; also vine-prop adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] vine-dressingc1440 vineyarding1870 viniculture1871 viticulture1872 (b) c1440 Pallad. on Husb. Table (1896) 16 Vyne couerynge and vindage apparayle. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Binement, a vine working, weeding. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A4 The sayling Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-propp Elme. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. Table s.v. Vine planting and pruning. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 613 Arne claims A record next for her illustrious sons, Vine-bearing Arne. 1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad vi. 111 An enclosure of land,..pleasant, vine-bearing, and arable. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti i. 14 Had Timour been trained to cabbage-raising and vine-dressing. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 237/1 A vine-growing country hitherto free from Phylloxera. < as lemmas |
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