Stanza II Line 1, store: an abundance, a great quantity; a storehouse or warehouse. Line 3, granary: a storehouse for grain, often after it has been threshed (the grain has been beaten from the rest of the plant). Line 4, winnowing: to separate the chaff from the grain by fanning or by means of the wind. Line 5, furrow: a cut or trench made by a plow; poetic usage, a plowed field. Line 6, drowsed: made sleepy. hook: a sickle or scythe, used to harvest grains and other crops. poppy: poppies used to grow in fields of grain. Poppies are the source of opium. Line 7, swath: the sweep of a scythe in mowing; the path cut in one sweep of a scythe. twined: poetic form of entwined or twisted. Line 8, gleaner: a person who gathers what the reapers have left in a field. Line 10, cider-press: a machine that squeezes apples to make cider.
Stanza III Line 3, barred clouds: thin, hoizontal clouds which resemble bars or strips. Line 4, stubble: the dried stumps of wheat and other grains left after reaping. Line 6, sallows: willows. borne aloft: carried high. Line 7, bourn: domain or realm. Line 8, croft: a small enclosed field.
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