side dressingn.
/ˈsʌɪd ˌdrɛsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsaɪd ˌdrɛsɪŋ/ 1. Dressing (dressing n. 3a) performed at or to the side of something; (Agriculture) a dressing applied to the ground around or to the side of a growing plant (cf. side dress n.). Also in figurative contexts.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > fertilizer or manure
fatnessc1420
amendment1483
manure1532
manuring1577
battling1600
dressing1600
worth1609
sucken1615
folding1626
fertilizera1661
sumen1662
recuperativec1679
field dressing1743
top-dressing1744
sweetener1765
settera1793
mendment1798
side dressing1819
substratum1822
manurer1829
liquid manure1837
soil amendment1915
side dress1920
Growmore1944
soil conditioner1952
1819 6th Rep. Select Comm. Road London to Holyhead App. 115 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 549) V. 223 The road has lately been brought into a good form..: some part of the side-dressing still remains to be performed.
1860 U.S. Patent 27,976 2/2 So as to receive the shades..directly from the side dressing cutter-heads.
1867 New Amer. Cycl. (new ed.) VIII. 507/1 The layers of the rock in the quarry furnish them of suitable thickness without side- dressing.
1871 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 61 40 The design shows vertical spindles for matching, or side dressing, but is adapted to plain surfacing.
1880 Virginia Univ. Mag. 20 41 Every country newspaper..will give its readers an elaborate account of the squabbles of the three political parties of the State of Virginia, the side-dressing bristling with the record of all the street fights, country feuds [etc.].
1888 Bull. Canebrake (Alabama) Agric. Exper. Station No. 28. 14 When nitrate of soda is employed as a side dressing.
1940 Plant Physiol. 15 147 (heading) Spinach grown with and without side-dressings of nitrate of soda.
1984 D. R. Bates Carpentry & Joinery, Bk. 2 xiii. 244 (caption) Applying side dressing to saw teeth.
2010 Poetry Ireland Rev. July 75 Today I bed the tomatoes.., Spread side dressings of compost, pinch off new side-shoots.
2. Agriculture. The action of applying a side dressing of fertilizer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun]
gooding1473
manuring1577
battling1600
fatting1600
fertilage1610
fertilizing1655
laetation1664
mending1707
top-dressing1744
boning1795
caprification1836
manurance1854
management1877
soil amendment1915
side dressing1950
fertigation1967
1950 Plant Physiol. 25 451 The main effect of side dressing with NaN03 was to increase the sodium content.
2001 Farm Industry News mid-Feb. 92/2 N [= nitrogen] applications will go on and on this year, so we will have to string N supplies out further to refill tanks during sidedressing.
2007 Weed Technol. 21 390/2 In the spring, before side-dressing, a soil-nitrate test..was used to gauge plant-available nitrate.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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