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ˈstifle-burn, v. Agric.
[f. stifle v.1 or n.2 + burn v.]
trans. To burn (field-refuse and surface-soil) in heaps pressed down with small access of air. Also ˈstifle-burning vbl. n.
1844Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. V. i. 169 Paring and Burning, or, as it is called in North Wilts, ‘stifle-burning’, is a system lately introduced into the south of the county. 1849Johnston Exp. Agric. 257 The burning should be slowly conducted, and with little access of air, a method which is well described by the epithet of stifle-burning. 1862in Morton's Farmer's Cal. 166 A neighbour stifle-burned a clover lea from which a crop of hay was just cleared. |