Meaning of plantage | Babel Free

Definitions

Plants, vegetation; specifically, the planting or cultivation of plants.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“As true as steel, as plantage to the moon.”

“And thus from Maries Wombe [footnote: Isaiah 23:2] a Plant⟳ proceeded, Which neither setting, neither plantage needed.”

“The jealous matrone with suspitious eye, Did read⟳ their common ill in every face⟳, Espyde the breach of their virginity, And fear'd a plantage with an infant race⟳.”

“And notwithstanding that for the space of 12 miles round about Rome, there are neither Cornes nor Wines, nor Village, Plantage, or Cultinage, save⟳ onely playne and pastoragious fields;[…]”

“From 1890, when the McKinley bill passed, nursery products had steadily declined, until to-day many articles were being offered at rates below the actual cost⟳ of production, so that the people who favored the restoration of the duty have⟳ lived to see⟳ their prophesies falsified, because the result⟳ has not been to decrease the plantage and increase⟳ the price, but has had exactly the opposite effect.”

“A one-bottom plantage plough does not fully turn⟳ the slice and leaves an uneven soil profile resulting in alternating bands of the plant⟳ stand⟳ in the first year. Due to this fact the plantage results in additional yields, but these are not so high as after the more proper transfer⟳ (or mixing) horizons[…]”

“It seems to me relevant, too, that only a part of the Disputed Land⟳ belongs to Mrs Virdi. She is able to use⟳ that part by maintaining it, dealing with it as owner. So, for instance, she can grow⟳ a plant⟳ or trellis close⟳ to the fence (so long as it does not prevent⟳ parking); she could place⟳ bicycles on this land⟳; she could alter the surface, replace⟳ and repaint the fencing, and so on.”

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