Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where oysters are sown or planted.
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Examples
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He knows it is the planting-ground of every seed of morality -- the garden of virtue, and the nursery of religion.
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On the dry high ground they could build their lodges underneath great trees and find themselves upon the highway of travel, while the rich bottom-lands gave them never-exhausted planting-ground for their fields of maize.
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Again the planting-ground of the Illini was utterly laid waste, to mark it naught remaining but trampled grain, and heaps of ashes, and remnants of blackened and incinerated bones.
The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890
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It was now time to plant our tobacco, and we all moved in the direction of our planting-ground.
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