seedtime
Definitions
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- noun The time to sow a seed.
- noun A time for new development.
Examples
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The nomads and farmers measured and still measure their day from sunrise to sunset, and their year in terms of the seedtime and harvest, of the falling leaf and the ice thawing on the lakes and rivers.
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Winter and summer, day and night, our lives are governed by cycles, just as Darwin said – and Genesis before him: ‘While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.’
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Though his mail from Cleveland and New York was “full of dolor and profanity,” he told Adams that he was convinced that “seedtime and harvest will follow each other.”
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The men are sleeping alongside the machines preparing everything for seedtime in order to eradicate as soon as possible this strain of cane which is producing these effects this year.
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With the coming of the seedtime, they entered the fields with their elders and learned to sow and tend and reap the crops.
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They are a heavy and unimaginative race, those peasants of Wiltshire; and, knowing their neighbor had written books, they could by no means get rid of the idea that he was the writer of _Moore's Almanac_, and perpetually, greeted him with a salutation, in hopes to receive in return some prognostic of the weather, which might guide them in arrangements for seedtime and harvest.
Note
The word 'seedtime' is a compound of 'seed' + 'time'.
