单词 | grass seeder |
释义 | grass seedern. 1. Agriculture. Any of various devices or machines for sowing grass seed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing sower1728 seeder1759 planter1850 grass seeder1854 scatterer1868 broadcaster1934 1854 Ohio Cultivator 1 Aug. 236/1 A Grass Seeder may also be obtained with the machine, to go before the drill teeth and sow broadcast. 1908 R. A. Moore & E. J. Delwiche Grains & Forage Crops for N. Wisconsin 17 Where no grass seeder attachment is used, any of the hand grass seeders may be used, or the clover seed may be sown by hand. 2012 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 20 Sept. An 18-foot flatbed trailer and a grass seeder disappeared from outside an equipment auction business in Manhattan. 2. New Zealand. A person who gathers grass seed (esp. that of cocksfoot) for sale. Cf. cocksfooter n. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1885 Akoroa (N.Z.) Mail 27 Feb. I am a grass seeder or anything. I have much need of a horse in my work. 1936 C. R. Allen Poor Scholar xix. 202 The grass-seeder would entrust his cheque to the squatter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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