Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cultivate or dig with a rototiller.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US To break up and turn soil using a
rototiller . - verb software To make extensive and pervasive changes to a piece of code without altering its functionality.
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Examples
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Now if you will excuse me, I'm going out into my back yard, and rototill a huge amount of dried shredded deciduous leaves down into my worm castings, and continue propagating my current bushes and black raspberry sprouts.
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Do something real, rototill that garden, patch that drywall, install that picture rail, whatever that thing is on your list – get out there and not only do it but enjoy doing it.
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A kind and fatherly figure, he showed me how to rototill, plant, and fertilize a garden.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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A kind and fatherly figure, he showed me how to rototill, plant, and fertilize a garden.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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A kind and fatherly figure, he showed me how to rototill, plant, and fertilize a garden.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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A kind and fatherly figure, he showed me how to rototill, plant, and fertilize a garden.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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She wanted to rototill the bermuda grass filled beds.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2003
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“I hire him to rototill my garden in May, but he does not dig where I tell him to.”
A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003
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Depending on whether you own a tiller, or have to rent one, you can keep your paths wide enough to rototill or make them narrower to save space.
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Depending on whether you own a tiller, or have to rent one, you can keep your paths wide enough to rototill or make them narrower to save space.
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