sun-cured

[ suhn-kyoord ]

/ ˈsʌnˌkyʊərd /

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adjective

cured or preserved by exposure to the rays of the sun, as meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.

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Origin of sun-cured

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Words nearby sun-cured

sunburst pleats, Sunbury, Sunbury-on-Thames, sunchoke, sun cream, sun-cured, Sund., sundae, Sunda Islands, sun dance, Sundanese

How to use sun-cured in a sentence

All looked at him as he stood on his cauterized feet, stretching his arms, lean and sun-cured, upward in the firelight.
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Then from their bases leap the rolling foot-hills, brown and bare but for the dense growth of the sun-cured buffalo-grass.
Marion's Faith.|Charles King
All else is uncut sun-cured hay, and its pale uniform buff colour is soft, and an improvement on the glare of bare gravel.
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2)|Isabella L. Bird
All cigar leaf tobacco is sun-cured, and as a general rule pipe smoking and chewing tobacco are cured by artificial heat.
Tobacco Leaves|W. A. Brennan

A tobacco axe used to harvest sun-cured tobacco in the Connecticut Valley region.
Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology|John T. Schlebecker

British Dictionary definitions for sun-cured

sun-cured

adjective

cured or preserved by exposure to the sun

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