Meaning of moot earth | Babel Free

Definitions

Soil taken from between the roots of a tree.

West-Country, uncountable

Examples

“It is the nature of lime to attract oils, and dissolve vegetable bodies: Hence arise the good effects of lime in the improvement of black moorish land. Moot earth seems to consist of dissolved and half-dissolved vegetable substances, and it is said that lime assimilates the one, and dissolves the other.”

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