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?c1540 Fitzherbert's Bk. Husbandry (new ed.) f. 16 The whiche shal be great hurte to the corne, whan it shall be sowen, and specially in the weding tyme.

1697 T. Tresilian Tinners Greivances 7 The poor Miners wages being fallen from thirty, to fourteen, or fifteen Shillings a month... The Wife, nor Girls getting very little, or nothing, (Except in weeding Season or Harvest).

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 385 The latter end of the weeding-season.

1834 D. Low Elements Pract. Agric. vii. iii. 328 It is well that the weeding process be not too long delayed.

1894 Christian Work 12 July 63/1 In the moral and spiritual spheres there must be weeding work.

1912 G. V. Lindner Newspaper Libr. Man. iii. 15 It is..safer to provide ample space for increasing portrait and picture collections rather than attempt some regular weeding method which might seriously impair their value.

1987 D. F. Wallace Broom of Syst. xii. 260/1 She can weed out the more obviously pathetic or inappropriate submissions, and save me valuable weeding-time.

2013 Irish Farmers Jrnl. 6 Apr. 54/2 Austrian company Einbock has developed a new rotary weeding machine to offer chemical free weeding techniques for cereal crops grown in a no-till tillage system.