frost-worked

adj

frost-worked

adj

1

Of a surface that has been affected by the freeze-thaw cycle

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.1804, Arthur Young, The farmer's kalendar:

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