seedtime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seedtime
before 1000; Middle English; Old English sǣdtīma. See seed, time
Example Sentences
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To understand it, we need to go back to what can accurately be termed the seedtime of sexism.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2022
Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet old Earth had still her individual romance of seedtime and harvest, sun and storm, peril and deliverance.
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine
The bluegrass itself was a flat failure; mere meadows of ordinary green, above which hung in seedtime a purplish tinge, like smoke from burning leaves.
From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
In this way the seasons, as well as the elements of the soil, are so modified and vitalized as to give to man seedtime and harvest, and needful food to every "living and creeping thing."
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
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