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seed drill

seed drill noun: a type of sowing machine.

seed drill: a type of sowing machine
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Noun

seed drill (plural seed drills)

  1. A type of sowing machine.
    • Most Chinese seed-drills sow not only seed but also manure. The idea was almost as old as the seed-drill itself in Europe, and it was common in India too.1984, Joseph Needham, Francesca Bray, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6, Part 2, page 270
    • American farmers began using the seed drill on a limited basis by 1775.2002, R. Douglas Hurt, American Agriculture: A Brief History, Revised edition, page 102

seed drill meaning in Tamil

seed drill in Tamil

விதைக்கலப்பை, விதைக்குங்கருவி, விதைப்பி

Examples of seed drill in a sentence

  • Another major advancement in the field of agriculture was the seed drill.2003, Ron Shaw, Great Inventors and Inventions, page 17:
  • Seeding with the Chinese seed drill requires higher than normal soil moisture compared to conventionally tilled wheat.2004, D. S. Pathic, R. K. Shrestha, “11: No-Till in the Rice-Wheat System: An Experience from Nepal”, in Rattan Lal, Peter R. Hobbs, Norman...
  • In 1701, English inventor Jethro Tull built a prototype seed drill that planted a metered stream of seeds at the right depth and covered them with soil to optimize growth.2005, Rick Kubik, How to Use Implements on Your Small-Scale Farm, page 43:

Forms of seed drill

pluralseed drills
alternative formseed-drill

Questions about seed drill

What does seed drill mean?
Seed drill means a type of sowing machine.
What is seed drill in Tamil?
Seed drill in Tamil is விதைக்கலப்பை, விதைக்குங்கருவி, விதைப்பி. See Seed drill meaning in Tamil.
How do you use seed drill in a sentence?
Another major advancement in the field of agriculture was the seed drill.
What part of speech is seed drill?
Seed drill is a noun.
What is the plural of seed drill?
The plural of seed drill is seed drills.

Words near seed drill in the dictionary

  1. seed cones
  2. seed corn
  3. seed crystal
  4. seed crystals
  5. seed down
  6. seed drill
  7. seed drills
  8. seed fern
  9. seed ferns
  10. seed fill
  11. seed fills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seed drill (page history and authors); seed drill (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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