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resowing

resowing is the present participle and gerund of resow.

Meaning of resow

Verb

resow (third-person singular simple present resows, present participle resowing, simple past resowed, past participle resown)

  1. To sow again, to plant seed where it has already been planted.

Noun

resowing (plural resowings)

  1. A second or subsequent sowing.
    • In Scotland the visitation was worst in the south; scarcely a Turnip field is stated to have escaped in the counties of Kirkcudbright and Dumfries, and resowings were requisite in many cases twice, in some a third time.1882, Eleanor Anne Ormerod, Miscellaneous Papers on Economic Entomology, page 4

Forms of resowing

pluralresowings

Questions about resowing

What does resowing mean?
Resowing means a second or subsequent sowing.
What is resowing the present participle and gerund of?
Resowing is the present participle and gerund of resow.
What part of speech is resowing?
Resowing is a noun.
What is the plural of resowing?
The plural of resowing is resowings.

Words near resowing in the dictionary

  1. resovietized
  2. resovietizes
  3. resovietizing
  4. resow
  5. resowed
  6. resowing
  7. resowings
  8. resown
  9. resows
  10. resp
  11. resp'ct

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