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1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Riseminare, to resowe, to sowe againe.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §669 They are forced to Resow Summer-corn where they Sowed Winter-corn.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Rye The chief use of this sort is to re-sow lands where the autumnal crop has failed.

1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 78 Resowing Clover, when the Oats were in Haw, was of no perceptible service.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 75 If several varieties of wheat be sown together, and the mixed seed be resown [etc.].

1889 J. Wrightson Fallow & Fodder Crops viii. 178 It is customary to resow with rape if swedes should happen to miss plant or be eaten off with the ‘fly’.

1917 H. Garland Son of Middle Border xiii. 128 More than seventy acres of this land had to be resown.

1967 Music Educators Jrnl. 53 35/2 He broke down the divisions between her fields and resowed them.

2004 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 16 June 76 Poppies can't be resown on the same ground for at least four years.

1786 G. Washington Diary 19 Oct. (1979) V. 53 The resowing of Rye..had been suspended.

1863 Afr. Repository Mar. 77 The long..dry season this year, occasioning the loss of a large number of early crops of grain, and the resowing of others.

1918 J. J. Taubenhaus Dis. Truck Crops iii. 52 The frequent resowings invariably result in late crops.

2007 H. M. Leach in R. Cassidy & M. Mullin Where Wild Things are Now 76 The resowing of previously harvested seed en masse automatically favored plants that produced more seed.