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Definition of Overwet
1. n. Excessive wetness.
Definition of Overwet
1. Verb. To make too wet; to make wetter than required. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overwet
1. to wet too much [v -WETTED, -WETTING, -WETS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwet
Literary usage of Overwet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seeding and Planting: A Manual for the Guidance of Forestry Students by James William Toumey (1916)
"The Advantages of Mound or Ridge Planting on overwet Sites and Under Certain
Other Adverse Soil Conditions Where trees are planted in soil that contains ..."
2. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"Good work cannot be done on land plowed overwet or overdry. ... hard if they are
plowed when overwet that they cannot be pulverized properly when preparing ..."
3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1894)
"They can and do turn on the water every few days and keep their soil always moist,
and from its nature it is impossible to get it overwet, so that with even ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"m large plant-, but the process is continually going oo ; and it is what occurs
in plants crowing in an overwet soil. In an open, well-aerated soil, ..."
5. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Eng Reo 68:202 Ag 23 '13 Strength deficiency of overwet and of under- mixed concrete.
E. McCullough. Eng N 70: 12511-1 D 18 '13 Sand tests essential to good ..."
6. Every Man His Own Gardener: Being a New, and Much More Complete, Gardener's by John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe (1767)
"... will thus have more power to mellow, and rain lefs opportunity to overwet it ;
for the ridges will not detain rain like ground laid perfec,ly flat. ..."
7. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1910)
"... loss of potted plants"; it also decreases the amount of attention required by
potted plants and avoids the evils of alternately overwet and baked soil. ..."
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