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Seedsman   Listen
noun
Seedsman  n.  (pl. seedsmen)  
1.
A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. "The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain."
2.
A person who deals in seeds.





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"Seedsman" Quotes from Famous Books



... in bottles, and hung round the walls of a large airy apartment; and for cleanliness and excellence of kind they would bear comparison with the best seedsman's collection in London. Of English garden vegetables, and varieties of the Indian Cerealia, and leguminous plants, Indian corn, millets, rice, etc., the ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... as white and bloodless as the powder with which they worked. By the use of cotton-wool respirators these women might be caused to breathe air as free from suspended matter as that of the open street. Over a year ago a Lancashire seedsman wrote to me, stating that during the seed season his men suffered horribly from irritation and fever, so that many of them left his service. He asked for help, and I gave him my advice. At the conclusion of the season, this year, he wrote to inform ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall


Words linked to "Seedsman" :   dealer, bargainer, monger


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