foxbench
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "... foxbench is one of the greatest enemies the farmer has to contend with, in the management of his land. He has no better remedy against its bad effects than digging through, and throwing it on the surface, where it will soon be[…]"
- "Foxbench is iron ore or oxide, which crumbles to pieces when exposed to the air; but is hard and rocky when under the soil, and is more injurious to trees than rammel, as it cannot be penetrated by their roots."
- "... [rammel,] foxbench, gravel, and red rock: the rammel is a hard argillaceous substance, very unfavourable to the vegetation on the surface; as also, in a still greater degree, is the foxbench: this lies in beds of from six inches to three[…]"
- "... foxbench is a semi hard or even soft formation of rust and dark brown coloured sandstone through which moisture drains very quickly; because of this we had to prepare the soil for the polyanthas which like a cool root run."