Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In bad condition from being too long used for raising clover: said of land.
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Examples
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Such a soil is termed "clover-sick"; and many have been the theories put forward to explain the phenomenon, but none of them can be regarded as satisfactory.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Can you inform me what it is that causes the land to be clover-sick?
Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838
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