seedlep

noun

seedlep

noun

Etymology From seed + Middle English lep.

1

Obsolete A basket or other device used for carrying seed while sowing.

The seed was cast on the ground from seed-cod or seedlep, the latter word being still used.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 412:

Synonyms: seedcod

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