English words for 'Alternative form of crop-dusting.'
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verb
- (agriculture) To work the soil surface for weeding, etc.
- (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
- (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
- (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
- fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
- walk by dragging one's feet
noun
- A type of hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling, with a sharp blade parallel with the worked surface; an instance of this type.
- A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
- (slang) Poverty; struggle.
- an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
- disorderly fighting
adj
- (agriculture) Having been processed by rotating brushes that loosen and remove dirt.
- Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.
- Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.
- (beekeeping) Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb.
- Having had brush or scrub removed.
- Having been written or painted using a brush.
- Covered in brush or scrub.
- (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
- (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush
- touched lightly in passing; grazed against
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- fertilize or dress with dung
- (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
- (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
- defecate; used of animals
intj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (horticulture) To treat soil by covering with plastic and exposing to sunlight.
- (transitive) To subject to solarization.
- To convert to using solar energy.
- expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
- overexpose to sunlight
- reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it
- become overexposed
noun
- (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.
- (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
- (alcohol production) The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
- plural of tailing
verb
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
noun
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
noun
- The wood of these trees.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
- (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
- any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
- a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
verb
adj
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
- A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
verb
noun
noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
- Someone who uses a cultivator (implement, device, or machine).
- Someone who grows plants.
- Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage.
- (figurative) Someone who fosters something besides plants (such as human development or relationships).
noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
- a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
- someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
- A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
- A handle; a stalk.
- (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
- A person who tills; a farmer.
- A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
- (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
- (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
- (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
- The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
verb
noun
- a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
- thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
- large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
- (informal) A fan of thrash metal music.
- One who thrashes.
- Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
- A thresher shark.
noun
- a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
- large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
- (agriculture) A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement.
- (agriculture) Anything or anyone that threshes.
- (zoology) Ellipsis of thresher shark.
- (agriculture, historical) A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail.
verb
adj
- (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
- (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
- (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
- undeveloped but potentially useful
noun
noun
- The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
- That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
- A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.
- (Hinduism) A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.
- (British, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
- a desirable state
adj
noun
- the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination
- the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
- a layered configuration
- forming or depositing in layers
- the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group
- A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.
- (ecology) The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
- (music) A layering of musical texture.
- (sociology) Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
- (horticulture) The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
- The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
verb
- To cleanse or sift, as barley.
- To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
- To stumble.
- To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
- (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
- To hesitate in purpose or action.
- (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- be unsure or weak
- speak haltingly
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
noun
noun
verb
noun
- (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.
- (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
- (alcohol production) The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
- plural of tailing
noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
- Someone who uses a cultivator (implement, device, or machine).
- Someone who grows plants.
- Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage.
- (figurative) Someone who fosters something besides plants (such as human development or relationships).
noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
- a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
- someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
- A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
- A handle; a stalk.
- (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
- A person who tills; a farmer.
- A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
- (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
- (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
- (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
- The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
verb
noun
- a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
- thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
- large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
- (informal) A fan of thrash metal music.
- One who thrashes.
- Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
- A thresher shark.
noun
- a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
- large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
- (agriculture) A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement.
- (agriculture) Anything or anyone that threshes.
- (zoology) Ellipsis of thresher shark.
- (agriculture, historical) A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail.
noun
- The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
- That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
- A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.
- (Hinduism) A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.
- (British, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
- a desirable state
adj
noun
- the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination
- the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
- a layered configuration
- forming or depositing in layers
- the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group
- A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.
- (ecology) The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
- (music) A layering of musical texture.
- (sociology) Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
- (horticulture) The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
- The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
noun
verb
verb
- (agriculture) To work the soil surface for weeding, etc.
- (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
- (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
- (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
- fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
- walk by dragging one's feet
noun
- A type of hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling, with a sharp blade parallel with the worked surface; an instance of this type.
- A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
- (slang) Poverty; struggle.
- an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
- disorderly fighting
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- fertilize or dress with dung
- (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
- (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
- defecate; used of animals
intj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (horticulture) To treat soil by covering with plastic and exposing to sunlight.
- (transitive) To subject to solarization.
- To convert to using solar energy.
- expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
- overexpose to sunlight
- reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it
- become overexposed
verb
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
noun
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
noun
- The wood of these trees.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
- (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
- any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
- a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
verb
adj
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
- A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
verb
noun
verb
adj
- (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
- (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
- (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
- undeveloped but potentially useful
noun
verb
- To cleanse or sift, as barley.
- To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
- To stumble.
- To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
- (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
- To hesitate in purpose or action.
- (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- be unsure or weak
- speak haltingly
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
noun
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adj
- (agriculture) Having been processed by rotating brushes that loosen and remove dirt.
- Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.
- Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.
- (beekeeping) Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb.
- Having had brush or scrub removed.
- Having been written or painted using a brush.
- Covered in brush or scrub.
- (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
- (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush
- touched lightly in passing; grazed against