top-dress
Example Sentences
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Return anything too chunky to the bin, and top-dress your plants indoors or out with the good stuff.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023
The accumulation of the winter is usually applied to the land for the corn crop, except the finer portion, which is used to top-dress meadow land.
From Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel by Johnson, Samuel W. (Samuel William)
If the soil is heavy, top-dress with grit in the fall.
From Making A Rock Garden by Adams, H. S. (Henry Sherman)
They must plow, and sow, and top-dress, and bottom-dress, and deep-drain, and surface-drain, and all the rest of it.
From No Name by Collins, Wilkie
It is a great nuisance for a public man who is liable to come home late at night to have to top-dress his head before he can retire.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
