impolderv.
transitive. = empolder v.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > reclaim from sea
gain1641
recovera1793
empolder1839
impolder1898
1898 D. S. Meldrum Holland & Hollanders 209 Into the sea that it is proposed to impolder, there falls, at Kampen, the river Ysel.
1901 Speaker 9 Mar. 633/2 It was about this time that Haarlem Mere was impoldered.
1929 Encycl. Brit. XI. 648/1 A great part of the Netherlands has now been impoldered.
Derivatives
imˈpoldering n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > reclamation from sea
recovering1543–4
impoldering1899
1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Apr. 4/2 This impoldering and pumping, the raising and keeping of dykes and dams.
1929 Encycl. Brit. XI. 648/2 The largest impoldering scheme on record has now been commenced.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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