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white soil
white soil n. Obsolete (a) shallow chalky soil (cf. white land n. 2); (b) soil suitable for growing cereals (cf. white corn n. at Compounds 1g(b)(ii)); contrasted with green soil n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(a).
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 387 They [sc. thistles] issued out more freely and longer here than in the white soil.
1776 J. Marshall Travels 1770–1 IV. ii. 56 At a distance from the village..is a low swampy part; the soil a thin stratuuum [sic] of peat-earth on the white soil.
1794 D. Ure Gen. View Agric. Roxburgh 9 The soils under tillage, are commonly arranged into two kinds, namely, light and clayey. The former is called turnip, or green soil; and the latter, white soil, because it is best adapted for growing oats, wheat, and other white grains.
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