| 单词 | to seed down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto seed down to seed down transitive. To sow (land) with grass or clover seeds, in between periods of crop-growing; (also) to intersperse grass or clover seeds amongst (a crop of oats, wheat, etc.). With †for, to, with. Also figurative. Also occasionally intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow interspersedly or at intervals intersow1725 to seed down1794 1794 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Cambr. 167 When the land tires of this round, and becomes foul of weeds, it is seeded down with red clover, and rye grass. 1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 505 It is the practice of one farmer..to seed down without a crop: his custom is to fallow. 1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 ii. 527 I seed down the oat-crop for clover. 1873 W. Carleton Farm Ballads 30 And I'll plough her grave with hate, and seed it down to scorn! 1910 Penny Illustr. Paper 2 Apr. 436/1 The land to be seeded down to grass must be poor, hungry soil, or the seed will not germinate freely. 1960 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 6 Oct. 26/7 The corn fields are seeded down with a grass legume mixture of 20 per cent red clover, 10 percent ladino clover, 35 per cent alfalfa, and 35 per cent timothy. 2010 A. L. Hansen Org. Farming Man. ix. 240/1 You will in most cases have to seed down the area. < as lemmas |
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