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
Harvest would still follow seedtime; the gold of autumn still reward the shallow mines of spring.
From Bird Day; How to prepare for it by Charles Almanzo Babcock
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
From Luther's Small Catechism Explained in Questions and Answers by H. U. Sverdrup
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 Eleanor Mercein Kelly
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