Meaning of plantage | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

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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