| 单词 | catchwork irrigation |
| 释义 | > as lemmascatchwork irrigation 1. A system of irrigation used on a hillside or slope consisting of a series of parallel channels or ditches, each of which overflows onto the area of land below it. Frequently attributive, as catchwork meadow, catchwork irrigation, etc. Now historical and rare.Cf. catch meadow n. at catch v. Compounds, catch-water meadow n. at catchwater n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > irrigation > [noun] field pondage1612 pondage1612 irrigation1626 floating-trench1649 masterwork1652 floating1669 catchwork1794 warping1799 watering1799 basin irrigation1903 sprinkler irrigation1908 sprinkling irrigation1910 spray irrigation1931 spray line1961 trickle irrigation1969 chemigation1981 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 32 The ‘catch-work meadow’ is made by turning a spring, or small stream, along the side of a hill, and thereby watering the land between the New Cut..and the original water-course. 1815 Bury & Norwich Post 12 July To Mr. Beck, jun. a piece of plate, for laying to water-meadow 5 acres of bed work and 5 acres of catch work. 1858 Glasgow Herald 1 Dec. 5/4 My own meadows..are formed in catch-work on the side of a hill,..which now yields, as an irrigated meadow, from 3 to four tons of hay per acre. 1908 Mod. Sanitation Sept. 13/1 [In] a catchwork system of irrigation..the sewage is delivered to the highest part of the area to be irrigated through a main carrier, which follows the contour of the land. 1974 Agric. Hist. 48 525 Before 1750 farmers in Pennsylvania and a few in New England had begun the catchwork irrigation of meadows. < as lemmas |
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