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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disk.

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Examples

  • After a couple of weeks of frantic activity, with vast combine harvesters sweeping the fields and heavy, high trailers loaded with grain rumbling behind tractors, night and day, the wheat fields around the village of Woodnewton are empty and the dry soil disked.

    Country diary: Northamptonshire 2011

  • To the south, just clearing the bleak Henderson Divide, poised the cold - disked sun.

    GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

  • I rod weeded and disked and harrowed and that kind of stuff.

    Green Lantern: Interview With Tricia Helfer » DVDs Worth Watching 2009

  • "We try to minimize it, but sometimes fields have to be disked," resulting in good foods being plowed under.

    Food To Waste 2010

  • In pursuit of the origin of the 123 Meme, the Lewis and LOBO Expedition has plowed, disked, and harrowed their way through 35 blogs, leaving a trail of overturned topsoil and empty beer bottles in its wake.

    Idaho Don and the Lost Crusader Temple Skull Meme: The End! Don Lewis 2008

  • FOX: I actually talked to a couple of the United Airlines personnel and privately they admitted what they saw was a disked shape object broad daylight punch a hole through the clouds when it left but they would not go in the record because they were debriefed by United Airlines and they said they would lose their jobs.

    CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007 2007

  • Next time you see Al Gore, not Franken in a motorcade of five or six bullet-proof three-ton SUVs headed for another Environmental Awards Ceremony on TV, you can turn to the guy on the next stool and say, "Sure, he burns some gas, but I own the carbon rights to a 40 acre hay field plowed AND disked by a 1949 tractor with a cracked oil pan."

    Archive 2007-12-01 Don Lewis 2007

  • Next time you see Al Gore, not Franken in a motorcade of five or six bullet-proof three-ton SUVs headed for another Environmental Awards Ceremony on TV, you can turn to the guy on the next stool and say, "Sure, he burns some gas, but I own the carbon rights to a 40 acre hay field plowed AND disked by a 1949 tractor with a cracked oil pan."

    Looking for a franchise deal? Don Lewis 2007

  • Another troop of Mykene in their distinctive bronze-disked armor charged unchallenged through the Seagate and up into the fortress.

    Shield of Thunder Gemmell, David 2006

  • By the time hunting season begins, some harvested cropfields have been disked or plowed to black dirt and completely lack pheasant-holding stubble.

    Where Pheasants Hide 2003

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