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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lime .
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Examples
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It’s not the carpentry that counts – it’s having a patch tended, cultivated, manured and limed which is never ever ever trodden upon.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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It’s not the carpentry that counts – it’s having a patch tended, cultivated, manured and limed which is never ever ever trodden upon.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jean 2009
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Pupukea Grill: A roadside food truck known for grilled ahi fish bowls served with limed brown rice.
Chilling Out in Oahu 2010
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But if you have access to good masa or nixtamal, the partially cooked and limed whole hominy used to make it, then by all means use it as the foundation here instead of the harina-water combination.
The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010
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The old common funeral – burying limed corpses in what was effectively a communal trench, using a public bier, pall, coffin and hearse, took a long time dying.
The Book of Common Prayer, part 4: In the midst of life 2010
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The authors, who claim to have read all 81 of the great works they limed, lovingly re-imagined everything from Homer, Shakespeare, and Joyce to Tolstoy, Austen and Rowling in the Twitter haiku.
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They then compared them with eels from an untreated river that eventually joined the limed one.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The eels from the limed river carried inside them a much richer diversity of tapeworms, flukes, and other parasites.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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We took a walk through the cemetary and just limed.
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A 3-year continuous record of nitrogen trace gas fluxes from untreated and limed soil of a N-saturated spruce and beech forest ecosystem in Germany.
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