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单词 top-dress
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top-dress

[ top-dres ]
/ ˈtɒpˌdrɛs /
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verb (used with object), top-dressed or top-drest, top-dress·ing.

to manure (land) on the surface.

Origin of top-dress

First recorded in 1725–35; top1 + dress

Words nearby top-dress

top dead-centre, top dog, top dollar, top-down, top drawer, top-dress, top dressing, tope, topectomy, topee, Topeka
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Example sentences from the Web for top-dress

  • In fall, top-dress the Lawn with commercial fertilizer at the rate of 500 pounds to the acre.

    The Practical Garden-Book|C. E. Hunn
  • After this I top-dress heavy with manure, leaving it lie on the land until spring.

    Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market:|F. M. Hexamer
  • You may leave them undisturbed for years, but if you can top-dress them in autumn so much the better.

    The Children's Book of Gardening|Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

British Dictionary definitions for top-dress

top-dress

verb

(tr) to spread manure or fertilizer on the surface of (land) without working it into the soil
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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