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  • noun Plural form of grassplot.

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Examples

  • We ascended a winding staircase, reached the top, and looked down upon the Institute grounds with their wide shell-paved walls, grassplots, flower-beds, orchards, groves and many buildings—the whole full of life, and giving evidence of abundant prosperity, and surrounded by a beautiful and charming country.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • We ascended a winding staircase, reached the top, and looked down upon the Institute grounds with their wide shell-paved walls, grassplots, flower-beds, orchards, groves and many buildings—the whole full of life, and giving evidence of abundant prosperity, and surrounded by a beautiful and charming country.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • We ascended a winding staircase, reached the top, and looked down upon the Institute grounds with their wide shell-paved walls, grassplots, flower-beds, orchards, groves and many buildings—the whole full of life, and giving evidence of abundant prosperity, and surrounded by a beautiful and charming country.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • We ascended a winding staircase, reached the top, and looked down upon the Institute grounds with their wide shell-paved walls, grassplots, flower-beds, orchards, groves and many buildings—the whole full of life, and giving evidence of abundant prosperity, and surrounded by a beautiful and charming country.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • We ascended a winding staircase, reached the top, and looked down upon the Institute grounds with their wide shell-paved walls, grassplots, flower-beds, orchards, groves and many buildings—the whole full of life, and giving evidence of abundant prosperity, and surrounded by a beautiful and charming country.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Perkins, too, was an orphan; and he and his Lucy, of summer evenings, when Sol descending lingered fondly yet about the minarets of the Foundling, and gilded the grassplots of

    The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

  • But George knew nothing of architectural styles, and was idly counting the multitude of windows when he was startled by a cracked old voice calling to him from the other side of the fence that separated the wood from the grassplots in front of the house.

    With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne Herbert Strang

  • Scattered about the trampled grassplots was a crowd of pitmen, surging hither and thither, some armed with pickaxes, some with hedge-stakes, some with nothing but nature's weapons.

    With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne Herbert Strang

  • -- Edible puffballs grow in open pastures, and on lawns and grassplots, often forming rings.

    The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

  • Mountain, but there is never a sufficiency to spare for watering roads or grassplots.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

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