v
To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps.
v
(transitive) To fertilize or enrich, as land.
n
An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
n
(agriculture) A strip of land within a crop field or garden that is planted with grasses or perennial plants in order to provide a habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and other fauna.
v
(transitive) To thresh (grain).
v
(Scotland, intransitive) Of grass or crops: to show their first shoots above ground.
v
(intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
n
(Western US) A small prairie in a forest; a small grassy plain among hills.
n
Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
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A pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet.
n
A forestry practice in which most or all trees in a harvest area are cut down.
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(dialectal) A wood; weald.
v
(transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
n
Alternative form of cropduster [An aircraft that carries out crop-dusting.]
n
(farming, agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
n
A patch of ground where an animal has consumed all of the biomass (plants, roots, etc.).
adj
Characterised by seeking to extract as much of a high-demand resource as possible from a forested area in as short a time as possible.
n
a kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy
v
To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
n
A type of upland soil that has impaired drainage
n
One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
n
(obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth
n
Land on which gorse grows.
v
(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
n
The practice of leaving short grass clippings on a lawn as nutrient.
n
A field covered by grass or grasses.
n
A plot of land on which grass grows.
n
(US and 19th century English) A lawn.
n
Alternative form of greaves; the sediment of melted tallow. [The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered.]
n
(obsolete) A bough; a branch.
n
(obsolete) A little grove.
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(dialect) The particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.
n
(Scotland, Northumbria) A steep excavation, especially a coal pit
n
(agriculture, Britain) A field, fields or farm where hops are grown.
adj
(agriculture) Describing a maturing/mature cereal crop.
n
(now only in dialects) A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.
n
(India, agriculture) The practice of cutting down and burning the vegetation from an area of forest in order to create farmable land.
n
(countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
n
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
n
The care and treatment of grass on a lawn.
v
(transitive) To weed; pull up weeds.
n
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A grove or wood; also, a woody valley.
n
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
n
Alternative form of memory hole [A figurative place to which lost or forgotten information is sent, usually deliberately; nowhere.]
n
Land whose soil is primarily composed of humus from drained swampland, used for growing certain crops such as onions and carrots.
v
(agriculture) To apply mulch.
n
A waterhole or pit in a bog where the bodies of murder victims were thrown.
v
(transitive, cooking) To bake (bread or dough) partially so it can be rapidly frozen for storage.
n
(horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.
n
(UK dialectal) A plot of ground.
n
(historical) The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
n
(dialectal or obsolete) Thatching.
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(UK, dialect) heathland; land full of heather
n
(India, historical) A wooded ravine; a thicket.
n
Alternative form of silage [Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.]
n
Alternative form of silage [Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.]
n
A man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining. Can also refer to the waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
n
(uncountable) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
n
(Australia) A person who practices specking, walking around scanning the ground for gemstones; a fossicker.
n
A field covered in stubble
n
The value of this timber.
v
(horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
v
(intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
n
(anatomy) A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus or larmier.
n
A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
n
(dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
n
(obsolete) A young tree.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To spread; branch out; send forth shoots.
v
Alternative spelling of top-dress [To cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer]
n
The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
n
A plot of land cultivated to produce truffles.
v
(transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
n
The waste produced by mountain top removal mining. So named because it is typically piled high in nearby valleys.
n
An underground place for storing wine at a constant temperature.
v
To plant or cultivate woad.
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