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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Underfur, adj. [Fur n. Also in the later dial. (1743).] ‘Under the furrow, applied to a method of sowing seed in a drill and covering it over with the plough’ (SND, s.v. Underfur adj.). —1699 Belhaven Rudiments 8.
Abroad where their grounds are very light & stenory, they have sowen wheat and barley upon the surface of the earth after the second plowing, then tilled it over with a thin forrow … This in their terms is called under-fur sowing
