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Definition of Overseed
1. to seed to excess [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overseed
Literary usage of Overseed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals and Court of by South Carolina Court of Appeals, South Carolina Court of Errors (1849)
"Ned (one of his father's slaves, who had run away from the place where the
plaintiff overseed, and had come to his father's residence, and for whom the ..."
2. A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration, 1865-1868 by John Townsend Trowbridge (1868)
"On the levee at Natchez I made the acquaintance of an old plantation overseer.
He knew all about cotton raising. " I 've overseed in the swamps, ..."
3. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme by Georgia Supreme Court (1860)
"I overseed or managed for James A. Everett, except what he (Everett) himself ...
I overseed for James A. Everett at one time, seven years, commencing in ..."
4. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1857)
"... to the size of the potato to overseed the this natural element which God h;is
abundantly supplied for us cannot be improved upon by man. ..."
5. Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of by Charles Ball, Fisher (1854)
"... and would soon .have young Yankee niggers; and he supposed the young ones
would be mulatto Yankees/'' "When I overseed for Colonel Polk/' said he, ..."
6. Fifty Years in Chains, Or, The Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball, Fisher (1860)
"When I overseed for Colonel Polk," said he, " on his rice plantation, he had two
Yankee niggers that be brought from Maryland, and they were running away ..."
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