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
The seedtime of life is too short, and its hours are too few, to spend in baffling detraction.
From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by H. Winthrop Pierce
For ordinary washing he gets half as much as the blacksmith or carpenter, or 13 to 20 lbs. of grain annually from each householder, with about another 10 lbs. at seedtime or harvest.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
His disciples thought they had never seen such promise in His life as at this hour: seedtime seemed to them to be past, and the harvest at hand.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
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