单词 | water-furrowing |
释义 | water-furrowingn. The action or practice of digging furrows to drain surface water from land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] dikingc1000 ditchingc1380 voidance1398 water-furrowing1398 avoidinga1513 rilling1610 dikage1634 1398–9 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 46 (MED) Waterfurwyng. 1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour xxxvii. 91 It follows now to speak of those that must be done either chiefly by the spade, or onely the spade. Chiefly by the spade, called water-furrowing. 1766 C. Varlo Treat. Agric. (new ed.) I. xvi. 154 To harrowing, sowing, rolling, and water furrowing. 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 207 In preparing land for a crop, water-furrowing is a very important operation. 1902 Daily Chron. 3 Feb. 7/5 The cost of producing wheat..is per acre about as follows:—Twelve carts of manure at 5s. per cart, £3;..water-furrowing, 1s. 1941 A. McDonald Early Amer. Soil Conservationists (U.S. Dept. Agric. Misc. Publ. No. 449) 26 Next to the introduction of vegetable matter into the soil, Lorain considered water-furrowing as the best defense against soil washing. 2011 Ayr (Austral.) Advocate (Nexis) 18 Nov. 603 Burdekin Seeds used their conventional cane implements with irrigation done through their normal water furrowing system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1398 |
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