Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of resound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete To resound.

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  • verb Past participle of resow

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Examples

  • LeMay ensured that fields were resown often, and in sufficient density to prevent more than a trickle of ships from getting through.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • LeMay ensured that fields were resown often, and in sufficient density to prevent more than a trickle of ships from getting through.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • Arugula, spinach, lettuce and cilantro had to be resown through chickenwire after the squirrels had a digfest with the first batch.

    October Veggie Day « Fairegarden 2008

  • Homes could be rebuilt, crops resown, goods replaced.

    Running from the Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Homes could be rebuilt, crops resown, goods replaced.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Homes could be rebuilt, crops resown, goods replaced.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Homes could be rebuilt, crops resown, goods replaced.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • He said mine clearance, a painstaking task at the best of times, was made doubly difficult because sometimes cleared areas were resown with explosives overnight.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • If the seeds of any triticale crop are repeatedly resown over several generations, an accumulation of chromosomal instability may lead to an increase of sterility, a decline in grain yield, and a rise in highly unstable types.

    4 Limitations and Uncertainties 1989

  • The moats were cleaned out of their miasmatic growth and certain of the grass-carpeted _parterres_ resown and given a semblance of their former selves.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

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