handweed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove weeds using only hand tools, that is, without spraying or using other weed-suppression technology.
Example Sentences
- "Snce the plots were wheel-hoed and handweeded twice, the number of man-minutes to handweed each plot is a good indication of the effect of the different treatments on the different weed species."
- "Filipino farmers usually handweed upland rice twice."
- "Thus, an additional 283.5 hours per acre were required to handweed plots not treated with Prowl."