meeker
See also: Meeker
English
Etymology
From the brand name of a harrow maker.
Adjective
meeker
- comparative form of meek: more meek
Verb
meeker (third-person singular simple present meekers, present participle meekering, simple past and past participle meekered)
- (agriculture) To break up and smooth soil with a harrow.
- 1918, Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society, page 333:
- After the field has been meekered it looks like it had been gone over with a garden rake, all clods having been cut or crushed and as level as a floor.
- 1943, Ohio Vegetable and Potato Growers Association, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting:
- I did not think it was necessary for all of you realize that your ground should be plowed, disked, harrowed, and meekered for a good seed bed.
- 1978, Ezuddin Sultan Mohammed, Early competition between redroot pigweed and tomato, page 51:
- The area was plowed on May l0, l977, disked on May l5 and meekered and harrowed on May 23 and 27.