| 单词 | wheat-sheaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswheat-sheaf wheat-sheaf n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > corn in sheaves > sheaf sheafc725 reapeOE yelmc1000 garbc1460 wheat-sheafc1530 gerbe1807 c1530 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 329 Item a greate Bason withe a Wheyte Sheffe in the bottom. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will in Wks. (Grosart) VI. 127 God knowes who shal pay goodman Yeomans, for his wheat sheafe. 1782 A. Highmore Ramble Coast Sussex (1873) 15 Nature..shewed us her Wheatsheaf—and her Autumn Horn. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 403 A wheat-sheaf should never contain more than two or three handsful. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 375 The cones [of the kidney] which are often compressed in their centres to the well-known wheat-sheaf shape. < as lemmas |
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