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Meanings of hilling in English
Technique in agriculture and horticulture of piling soil up around the base of a plant.
Usage of hilling in English
1
Suppose you have an eye on the hilling up of the potatoes, Ted.
2
In wet soils or seasons hilling may be advisable, but very seldom otherwise.
3
Protecting your taters with the hilling technique
4
A little temporary hilling will do no harm, but the ground should be kept as level as possible.
5
There is a broad hilling up, so as to have a slope inward toward the plants, as well as away from them.
6
The operation of "hilling" consists in drawing up the soil about the stems of growing plants, usually at the time of second or third hoeing.
7
I've heard there's work in Hilling, in the Hilling Forest.
8
But the fall since 2010 is the second biggest in the G20, ventured Hilling.
9
Michael and Shirley Anderson, along with their MP Julie Hilling, spoke to Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast.
10
Duncan Hilling, now 94, refused a medal after the war because he had mixed feelings and did not feel he deserved one.
11
The figures came in a written parliamentary answer to Julie Hilling, Labour MP for Bolton West, who has described them as "quite shocking".
Frequent collocations
Translations for hilling
Russian
Hilling through the time