repastination

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • noun A second or repeated digging up, as of a garden or field.

Examples

  • I had to look up stercoration (the action or act of manuring with dung) and repastination (the action or process of digging over again).

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  • Though I gave them no manure, and did not hoe them all once, I hoed them unusually well as far as I went, and was paid for it in the end, "there being in truth," as Evelyn says, "no compost or laetation whatsoever comparable to this continual motion, repastination, and turning of the mould with the spade."

    Walden, or Life in the woods

Note

The word 'repastination' comes from a Latin word meaning "to prepare ground for planting (again)".