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Definition of Overcrops
1. overcrop [v] - See also: overcrop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcrops
Literary usage of Overcrops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing (1845)
"... exhaustion arising from successive overcrops. Afterwards it has been established
and perpetuated by sowing the seeds of the enfeebled tree either to ..."
2. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1846)
"... American varieties of the peach, and produced in the first place by bad
cultivation, and the consequent exhaustion arising from successive overcrops. ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1902)
"Many of these drift stones and boulders are of the red Sioux quartzite, which
overcrops 300 to 350 miles northward, in southwestern Minnesota, the northwest ..."
4. A Plea for Peasant Proprietors: With the Outlines of a Plan for Their by William Thomas Thornton (1874)
"... who keeps neither a. horse nor a cow, whose only tools are the spade and hoe,
who seldom manures, and never drains, but nevertheless overcrops his ..."
5. Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster, Historical and by Emma Roberts (1827)
"... paid to hint by the ' •>« — his Favour at the Emperor's Court — his courteous
Conduct 'it Calais — he devises a new Point in Chivalry — overcrops, ..."
6. Bayldon's Art of Valuing Rents and Tillages, and the Tenant's Right on by J. S. Bayldon, John Donaldson (1840)
"The farmer, who has probably been born and bred on the spot, is unwilling to
leave it: he overcrops the land, exhausts his capital, and both interests ..."
7. The Phasis of Matter: Being an Outline of the Discoveries and Applications by T. Lindley Kemp (1855)
"Nay, sometimes when he manages unskilfully and overcrops, he abstracts these so
rapidly, that there is not enough of them left to supply the sap of a full ..."
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