Agriculture Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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flake n. One of the shrewd ways in which the boys made concealment was by lifting a flake of hay from the stack and making a hole beneath it. Upon letting the flake of weather-beaten thatch fall back into place, all signs of the nest disappeared. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

flake n. A big flake of straw thrown out onto the snow, along with some scratch feed, made it a bit more tempting a place to explore and soon half the flock were out in the sun. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

flake n. I prefer mulches that break down readily in the soil and are easy to lay down. I used to buy salt hay, which grows in coastal marshes, because the seeds it contains don’t germinate in gardens. But it’s less available now, so I use straw or hay. These come off the bale in flakes, like the volumes in an encyclopedia. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

flake n. I want nothing except for this flake of alfalfa hay in the back corner. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

fleak n. FLEAK, s. a small bundle of hay; not a truss. [English United Kingdom Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 24, 2007)

food-shed n. When the population grows to where it eats all that such a “food-shed” can grow, there you have your limit to size. [English Agriculture Environment Food & Drink] [full cite] (May. 15, 2007)

foodshed n. He went on to explain that Polyface does not ship long distance, does not sell to supermarkets, and does not wholesale its food. All of the meat and eggs that Polyface produces is eaten within a few dozen miles or, at the most, half a day’s drive of the farm—within the farm’s “foodshed.” [English Agriculture Environment Food & Drink] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2006)

foodshed n. According to a study undertaken in the Recife foodshed area…,the lower 58 percent of families spent approximately 70 percent of their income on food. [English Agriculture Environment Food & Drink] [full cite] (May. 15, 2007)

foodshed n. But where Waters’ foodshed stretches as far south as Chino ranch near San Diego, Grade’s ingredients are gathered from at most a 15-mile radius or no more than a half hour from the lodge. Much of it comes from people she considers neighbors and friends. Plus, Grade hunts and fishes and forages herself. [English Agriculture Environment Food & Drink] [full cite] (May. 15, 2007)

foodshed n. Watersheds, Milksheds, and Foodsheds. [English Agriculture Environment Food & Drink] [full cite] (May. 15, 2007)

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