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Definition of tick bean in English: tick beannoun A field bean of a variety with small rounded seeds, used for feeding to pigeons. Example sentencesExamples - ‘At the moment we have kale, tick beans, and maize, but we've already got some canary grass planted in preparation for the start of the 2007 season.’
- Our softfood is given daily and consists of growrite, soaked oaks, two large carrots, ground up beanmeal and tick beans which we get from a local farmer.
- This is why green manure crops contain a high percentage of annual legumes, such as field peas or tick beans, usually mixed with field mustard, rape or cress, which provide sulphur.
- Broad beans and their close relatives, the tick beans, are often grown as a green manure.
- Use rye corn which is simply an extremely lush grass which is dug in when it's about half a metre high, or tick beans which are a type of broad bean.
- The main crops under cultivation in the district were wheat, barley, oats, house and tick beans, known locally as redwells.
- The pigeon food abounds with all sorts of goodies for the chickens and incudes things like maple and tick beans, cracked corn and goodness knows what else but it looks a really good mixture.
Origin Mid 18th century: so named from the resemblance of the seeds to dog ticks. |