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Definition of Sowings
1. sowing [n] - See also: sowing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sowings
| sowen sowens sower sowers sowest soweth sowf sowfed sowff sowffed | sowffing sowffs sowfing sowfs sowing sowings (current term) sowl sowle sowled sowles | sowling sowls sowm sowmed sowming sowms sown sownd sownded sownding |
Literary usage of Sowings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Improving Planting Stock Quality: The Humboldt Experience by James L. Jenkinson (1995)
"Accordingly, field performance tests were run using 1-0 seedlings lifted from
the February-May, 1985 and January-April, 1987 sowings. ..."
2. The Modern Husbandman, Or, The Practice of Farming by William Ellis (1744)
"z6 Of TURN EP S. How a Farmer, after four Plowing* and sowings, loft bis Crop of
... and sowings, the Farmer, to my Knowledge, mifs'da Crop of ..."
3. The Indian Forester (1887)
"Teak sowings of 1881.—These are estimated to cover 300 acres 250 acres being ...
The cutch sowings (50 acres) have not been successful, and there are very ..."
4. The Indian Forester (1880)
"SIR,—Attempts in the past to rear Deodar in the forest by artificial sowings seem
generally to have been successful in the Punjab. It may be said that, ..."
5. A Selection from the Letters of the Late Sarah Grubb (formerly Sarah Lynes) by Sarah Grubb (1848)
"... be still," and the storm shall cease; oh ! may He be to thee and many others
among you (to whom I feel sowings of love) the source of all-sufficiency. ..."
6. Greenhouse and Stove Plants, Flowering and Fine-leaved, Palms, Ferns, and by Thomas Baines (1885)
"... additional sowings should be made at intervals of about a month. Seed is
produced much more sparingly by the fine double flowers than by such as arc ..."
7. The Story of the Cheh-Kiang Mission of the Church Missionary Society by Arthur Evans Moule (1891)
"SELF-sowings. " For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself, first the blade,
then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." HE earth bringeth forth ..."
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