Word Meanings - COVERCROP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.

• Spriggy
  Full of sprigs or small branches.
• Undergore
  To gore underneath.
• Understandable
  Capable of being understood; intelligible.
• Springe
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.
• Underhead
  A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead.
• Undertaken
  of Undertake
• Sprinting
  of Sprint
• Underlease
  A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease.
• Undervalue
  To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.
• Catchpenny
  Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.
• Spruce
  Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
• Underminer
  One who undermines.
• Underwrote
  of Underwrite
• Plantation
  The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
• Underback
  A vessel which receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.
• Underpeopled
  Not fully peopled.
• Winterly
  Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
• Plowbote
  Alt. of Ploughbote
• Underchaps
  The lower chaps or jaw.
• Underproper
  One who, or that which, underprops or supports.

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