单词 | cane row |
释义 | cane rown. 1. A line in which sugar cane is planted; a row of sugar cane. ΚΠ 1750 S. Martin Ess. upon Plantership (ed. 2) i. 26 Let all the cane-rows run east and west, that the trade wind may pass freely thro' them. 1843 Eight Pract. Treat. Cultiv. Sugar Cane 139 I have lately read some ingenious arguments in support of planting the Cane rows, at double or treble the usual distance. 1916 Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 6 25 It is customary to subsoil a part or the whole of the land existing between cane rows. 2012 K. Cole Poison Princess 12 I meandered across the front lawn to a nearby cane row, leaning in to smell a purple stalk. 2. Caribbean. In plural or (less commonly) singular: a style of braiding, worn predominantly by black people, in which the hair is plaited in narrow strips to form geometric patterns on the scalp; = corn row n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits tracec1380 plight?1387 tressa1400 plexc1450 braid1530 tuck1532 buoy-rope1546 trammels1589 entrammelling1598 border1601 point1604 pleat?1606 trammelets1654 maze1657 brede1696 queue1724 pigtail?1725 tie1725 cue1731 tuck-up1749 tutulus1753 club1786 tail1799 French twist1850 Grecian plait1851 French plait1871 horse's tail1873 Gretchen braid, plait1890 shimada1910 ponytail1916 French braid1937 cane row1939 dreadlocks1960 French pleat1964 Tom Jones1964 corn row1971 dread1984 club-pigtail- 1939 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 1 July 27/5 His shiny hair was scissored to the skull leaving several winding cane rows. 2001 R. Degazon-Johnson New Door Opened iii. 33/1 She was engaged in doing a cane-row with extensions for a client. 2009 H. Williams in T. Bradman All in Family 81 Her hair, like mine, was plaited in cane rows. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1750 |
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