Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the crowfoots, Ranunculus arvensis: so called as impoverishing the soil or indicating a poor one.
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Examples
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It is an ode to the starve-acre Southern farm, the mountain landscape, and difficult love.
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It is an ode to the starve-acre Southern farm, the mountain landscape, and difficult love.
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It is an ode to the starve-acre Southern farm, the mountain landscape, and difficult love.
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No crisis, apparently, had supervened; and there was nothing left for her to do but to continue upon that starve-acre farm till she could again summon courage to face the vicarage.
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There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place.
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No crisis, apparently, had supervened; and there was nothing left for her to do but to continue upon that starve-acre farm till she could again summon courage to face the
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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