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
He looks at summer and winter, seedtime and harvest: and he sees them obeying law.
From Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Charles Kingsley
As usual, they count upon effects without causes, upon an ingathering of the harvest with no preceding seedtime.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
Few men have cast the bread upon greater waters, have sown the seed over a wider area, or had to mourn more sadly over those heart-breaking months which intervene between the seedtime and the harvest.
From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour
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