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Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / Dealing with hay | | German term or phrase: aufschlichten | Die nassen Böden zwingen die Bauern dazu, das Heu in Gaben aufzuschlichten.
THe context is a historical look at what farmers were doing 50 years ago. |
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| | to stook the hay | Explanation:
Is this not 'aufschichten', i.e. to stack up?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stook
"A stook is a circular or rounded arrangement of swathes of cut grain stalks placed on the ground in a field. Typically sheaves of grains such as wheat, barley and oats may be 'stooked' so they are ready for threshing."
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/STOOK
Noun: stook
Usage: UK
1. A small collection of sheaves set up in the field
Verb: stook
Usage: UK
1. To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks
Derived forms: stooked, stooking, stooks
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Anton Baer
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830 days confidence: cocking (hay)
Explanation:
In Ireland and England, the building of hay into stacks to facilitate further in-field drying and protect drying hay from rain is called 'cocking'. A stack is a heap which comprises hay etc. which is already made. 'stooking' relates to grain crops when cereals such as wheat were cut and then bound into bundles (reaping and binding). The bundles were 'stooked' to enable field drying in advance of threshing.
Reference: http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&resource=Webster%...
| Donal Murphy-Bokern
Germany
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Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
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