Lexicographical Neighbors of Feerings
Literary usage of Feerings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Farm by Henry Stephens (1852)
"In this way the harrowing, and feering, and the plowing of the different feerings
can be proceeded with at the same time. But if time is not urgent, ..."
2. British Farmer's Magazine (1854)
"The field should then be laid off in divisions, feerings—well thrown out (to
provide against gathering up the soil higher than the surrounding surface)—of ..."
3. The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of by Francis Leopold M'Clintock (1860)
"... of searching expeditions, and warmly to sustain Lady Franklin's endeavors in
this holy cause. Imbued with such feerings, I must be permitted to ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... and furrow after furrow is turned towards the inside of each of these feerings
until the whole ridge is ploughed, and then in the centre is formed the ..."
5. The chemistry of the farm by Robert Warington (1882)
"Thus, if the distance between the two feerings was 10 yards, 5 yards would be
gathered in each case, and 5 yards of unploughed land still lie between them. ..."
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