单词 | creech |
释义 | creech, creach local.|kriːtʃ| [Derivation unknown.] Local name of a kind of stony or gravelly soil: see quots.
1610[see creechy below]. 1798Young Ann. Agric. XXXI. 201 Much creech lime from near Matlock. 1801Ibid. XXXVII. 533 The soil is creach upon limestone. 1851Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. i. 266 A good red deep loam with fragments of stone (locally [Lincolnshire] termed ‘creech’ land). Ibid. 267 The soil varies from clay to creech and sand; the creech making good arable land. Hence creechy, creachy a., of the nature of creech; gravelly.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. ii. 3 Either Simple, as Clay, Moulde, Moore, Grauell, Sande: Or Commixt, as Creachie, Chaulkie, Clayie, Sandie Earth. Ibid. xi. 35 Vetches are fruitfull in Creachie Countries. Ibid. i. 43 Best fitted with a glareous soyle, viz. dry, leane and creachy. |

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