frost-worked
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]frost-worked (comparative more frost-worked, superlative most frost-worked)
- (of a surface) that has been affected by the freeze-thaw cycle
- 1804, Arthur Young, The farmer's kalendar[1]:
- This practice they carry so far, as neither to scarify, nor even harrow, putting the seed into the frost-worked surface, and their success is a justification of the system.