green-soil

See also: green soil

English

Verb

green-soil (third-person singular simple present green-soils, present participle green-soiling, simple past and past participle green-soiled)

  1. (transitive) To nourish or infuse something with green soil.
    • 1900, American Cane Growers' Association, Louisiana Sugar Chemists' Association, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association (contributors), “Colonial Letters”, in The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer‎[1], page 385:
      The committee reporting on fertilization agreed that in some overworked soils, exhausted of humus and of consequent lower temperature, the use of chemical fertilizers should be discontinued, and that the land be allowed to lie fallow or be green-soiled.
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