单词 | wortyard |
释义 | > as lemmaswortyard wortyard n. now archaic and historical a garden in which vegetables or herbs are grown. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > kitchen- or herb-garden wortyardOE kitchen garden1376 calgarth14.. pot garden1511 herbary1625 potagera1684 plantiequoy1686 potagerie1693 olitory1706 yard1718 kailyard1725 vegetable garden1756 plantiecrue1806 cabbage patch1810 cole-garth1865 victory garden1942 OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 31 Gif munuc..mid his lichoman eaðmodnesse..simle gebycnige, þæt sy æghwær, ge on weorce, ge on gebedhuse, ge innan mynstre, ge on wyrtgearde [a1225 Winteney wyrtearde; L. in horto]. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. i. 181 Þam gewunode Paulinus dæghwamlice bringan to beode grene wyrta wel stincende &..eft hweorfan to þære gymingce his wyrtgeardes. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings xxi. 2 Ȝif to me þi vyneȝerd þat I make to me a woorteȝerd. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 331 (MED) He..suffrede not, for defaute of preching, Goddis vyneȝerde passe to a wortȝerd. 1888 Amer. Garden Sept. 325/2 When the Normans conquered England they brought their garden and its flowers with them, for the English had blossoms and blooms, but no flowers in their ‘wort yard’. 2006 J. Prentice Full Moon Feast 147 There is an Old English term for an herb garden: wortyard. After taking that class I was able to begin planting my wortyard, and to experiment with combining herbs for teas. < as lemmas |
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