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Definition of Empolder
1. impolder [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: impolder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empolder
Literary usage of Empolder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1897)
"He next erects a brick sluice, or wooden koker to drain off the water from this
enclosed space which is called an empolder. ..."
2. History of British Guiana, from the Year 1668 to the Present Time by James Rodway (1893)
"Now came the capitalist, who bought the plantation and commenced to clear and
empolder a much larger acreage than his predecessor. ..."
3. Sugar and the Sugar Cane: An Elementary Treatise on the Agriculture of the by Noël Deerr (1905)
"... in certain countries, as Demerara where abundance of virgin soil awaits
cultivation, proprietors can continually empolder new land and allow that which ..."
4. Sugar Growing and Refining: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Culture of Sugar by Charles George Warnford Lock, George William Wigner, Robert Henry Harland (1882)
"... which must be lined out 5 feet x 5 feet, exactly in the centre of the intended
dam ; all the dirt coming out of this is packed on the empolder side, ..."
5. Sugar: A Handbook for Planters and Refiners by Charles George Warnford Lock, Benjamin E. R. Newlands, John A. R. Newlands (1888)
"... which must be lined out 5 feet x 5 feet, exactly in the centre of the intended
dam; all the dirt coming out of this is packed on the empolder side, ..."
6. The Colony of British Guyana and Its Labouring Population: Containing a by H. V. P. Bronkhurst (1883)
"A few acres of the new empolder land of Friendship have been planted with canes (and
well they are growing too), but Mr. Daly, in his report, ..."
7. Sugar: A Handbook for Planters and Refiners, Being a Comprehensive Treatise by John A. R. Newlands, Benjamin E. R. Newlands (1909)
"... which must be lined out 5 feet x 5 feet, exactly in the centre of the intended
dam ; all the dirt coming out of this is packed on the empolder side, ..."
8. The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms: With a by Peter Lund Simmonds (1858)
"empolder, a name in Demerara for the extension of an estate inland, 3100 yards
backwards from a canal or river t ron tage. EMPORIUM, in a large sense a ..."
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