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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Sounding, vbl. n.2 [? Sound adj. Cf. SND Sound v.2 2.] The state or condition of being moist. — 1699 Belhaven Rudiments 27.
If the land be hard being wate plowed and having gotten no frost to soften it … you must either wait upon a shower or sow it in the sounding, as they call it, that is to say, before it be fully dry
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