top-dressv.

Etymology: < top n.¹ + dress v. 17.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtop-ˌdress.

a. transitive. To manure on the surface, as land, grass, or any crop. Also absol.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)]

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1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 15 Much better than top-dressing the Grain after it is in the Ground.

1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 xii. 47 The advantages of top-dressing wheat in the spring with soot, or other light manure.

1852 Beck's Florist June 117 To enable us to ‘top-dress’, as it is termed; i.e. to clean the surface, and cover it with a mixture of half-rotten manure and loam.

b. transferred and figurative.

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1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 381/2 Before I was sixteen, [I] grinded, and partly top-dressed the Autobiography and Opinions of Men and Things, at home and abroad, of Stephen Fox, Esq.

1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) i. 13 The wealth..almost without metaphor top-dressed the greater portion of the old as well as of the new world.

1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar 342 Plumtree was a mere boy,..actually shaving for whiskers, top-dressing with balm of Columbia, and raising an abundant crop of pimples as the result.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	top-dress
释义	top-dressv. Etymology: < top n.¹ + dress v. 17.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtop-ˌdress. a. transitive. To manure on the surface, as land, grass, or any crop. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] gooda1525 marl1528 plentify1555 fat1562 fatten1563 season1563 heart1573 manure1577 soil1593 hearten1594 remanure1598 enrich1601 teasel1610 battle1611 batten1612 bedung1649 sweeten1733 top-dress1733 top1856 side-dress1888 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 15 Much better than top-dressing the Grain after it is in the Ground. 1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 xii. 47 The advantages of top-dressing wheat in the spring with soot, or other light manure. 1852 Beck's Florist June 117 To enable us to ‘top-dress’, as it is termed; i.e. to clean the surface, and cover it with a mixture of half-rotten manure and loam. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 381/2 Before I was sixteen, [I] grinded, and partly top-dressed the Autobiography and Opinions of Men and Things, at home and abroad, of Stephen Fox, Esq. 1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) i. 13 The wealth..almost without metaphor top-dressed the greater portion of the old as well as of the new world. 1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar 342 Plumtree was a mere boy,..actually shaving for whiskers, top-dressing with balm of Columbia, and raising an abundant crop of pimples as the result. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.1733
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