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resowing

resowing

English

Verb

resowing

  1. present participle of resow

Noun

resowing (plural resowings)

  1. A second or subsequent sowing.
    • 1882, Eleanor Anne Ormerod, Miscellaneous Papers on Economic Entomology (page 4)
      In Scotland the visitation was worst in the south; scarcely a Turnip field is stated to have escaped in the counties of Kirkcudbright and Dumfries, and resowings were requisite in many cases twice, in some a third time.