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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To cover (a road surface) with loose material that is not worked in.
  • transitive verb To apply top dressing to (soil or plants).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To manure on the surface, as land.

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

  • transitive verb To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb scatter manure or fertilizer over (land)

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