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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A broadcast seedingmachine or seeder, used especially for grainand grass-planting.
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Examples
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The withering sneer and the look of contempt gave character to the sarcasms and bitter invectives which he scattered with the prodigality of a seed-sower.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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He might make you a seed-sower, like lonely Morrison in China, when
Quiet Talks on Power S.D. Gordon
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Meanwhile the wheel-hoe and seeder he had insisted upon Mrs. Atterson buying had arrived, and Hiram, after studying the instructions which came with it, set the machine up as a seed-sower.
Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
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After plowing deep, and harrowing carefully, the seed should be planted with a seed-sower, in drills about eighteen inches apart, at the rate of four pounds to the acre, about the middle of May.
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The seed may be scattered by hand or by a seed-sower.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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J. Roffet, Paris, 1549, employed the design of the seed-sower in several of his Marks; and of about a dozen different Marks used at one time or another by Jean De Tournes the first, Lyons, 1542, one of the most successful is a clever one having for its central figure a sower; the same idea, in a very crude form, was contemporaneously employed also by
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With the spirit of the seed-sower swelling within him he took the noon train, handing over to me the management of the Homestead.
A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900
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If the area burned over is a large one, the fire loosens the clasp of the cone-scales and millions of lodge-pole seeds are released to be sown by the great eternal seed-sower, the wind.
Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896
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He is emphatically a seed-sower, and though results may not always appear, eternity will reveal the good
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