sod
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2.2
- noun
- /sɑd/
:
tepe
- The gardener rolled out the new sod to create a beautiful lawn in the backyard.
- sod hut
- sod farm
- sod house
She camouflaged the pit with branches overlaid with sod.
- She camouflaged the pit with branches overlaid with sod.
- Their job with a practised touches of the blind to feel out the slightest hoof, flung sod and tamp it back into the reap affected turf.
Examples
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Honey, can you call the landscapers again about the sod?
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Other end uses include agriculture, sod and tree farms, golf courses, bioremediation, mine land reclamation, and landfill cover/closure.
Academic text (1996) -
Yep, and the sod is looking amazing.
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Understand that I will pay for the sod to replace your lawn.
Fiction book (1997) -
Friends... many of you brought away with you a handful of Irish sod, to keep green your memories of home.
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I laid sod on Dickie's golf course.
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We just did the sod, which you can't really see the sod's kind of dying, but we can bring it back to life.
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Later, they might have houses built from sod (hard blocks of grassy soil).
Academic text (1992) -
Early plows, drawn by two oxen, did not normally turn the sod but merely scratched it.
Academic text (1999) -
Penny is sweeping in the doorway of Munny's sod hut in Kansas.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
48
2.7
The top layer of ground held together by grass roots
1
9.6
A layer of ground covered with grass
Fresh grass cut into rolls that you lay on bare soil
Compounds
How Thick
48
2.7
11
2.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sod originally meant 'a piece or layer of turf', a square of grass with its roots and soil, so modern sod is the same thing used to make lawns and sports fields, like laying a green carpet.