10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POACHY»
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The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
In Hazard, Kentucky, I worked with a watery- eyed individual of great age named
Poachy Gab- bard. According to my notes, Poachy 's fees were small, and the
results of his efforts in the field of folklore were smaller. From a page of my ...
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Select papers ... to 1862
It is useless to contend against the disease, and the best way is to avoid the
cause, look to the sheep walks, and beware of poachy ground. The practice of
permitting cattle to run on low lands, used by sheep at all times, is a cause of
much loss ...
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
POACHY, adj. Damp; marshy. A cant word. — Marsh lands lay not up till April ;
except your marshes be very poachy. Mortimer. POBEDA, a town of Spain, in Old
Castile. POBETTEN, a town of Prussia, in Samland; 16 miles NW. of Konigsberg.
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Museum Rusticum et Commerciale
Mechanicus has given rather an imperfect account of 'his land; however, he says,
it is mostly indifferent, coverved with 'docks and thistles; and that the land is light,
naturally wet, and poachy. The best adviceI can give him, is to get rid of his ...
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Complete steward ... containing ... also a new system of ...
susfered to lie flat, they will become so poachy and full of weeds, that they will not
be sit to bear a crop the next Summer, and what they produce will be worth little. It
should be the care of every ploughman to get a thorough understanding into ...
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Quarterly Journal of Agriculture
The bottoms of drains, when not cut deep enough, are sometimes soft and
poachy, and the draining material liable to sink into the mud. In such cases plain
tiles, or flat stones, should be laid in tha drain bottoms for the drain tiles, or setting
...
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Every man his own cattle doctor; or, A practical treatise on ...
It prevails, or rather it is only found in boggy, poachy ground. On upland pasture,
with a light, sandy soil, it is never seen ; and in good sound pasture, in a lower
situation, it is only seen when, from an unusually wet season, the pasture
becomes ...
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Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society- ...
The bottoms of drains, when not cut deep enough, are sometimes soft and
poachy, and the draining material liable to sink into the mud. In such cases plain
tiles, or flat stones, should be laid in the drain bottoms for the drain tiles, or setting
...
9
Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases: To which is ...
It is rarely or almost never seen on dry or sandy soils and in dry seasons; it is
rarely wanting on boggy or poachy ground, except when that ground is dried by
the heat of the summer's sun, or completely covered by the winter's rain. In the
same ...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge
n.s. from poachy.] Marshiness ; dampness. A cant word. — Tie valleys because of
the poacbinifi they keep for grass. Mort. * POACHY, adj. Damp; marshy. A cant
word.— Marih land lay not up till April, except your marlhes be verv poachy. Mart.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1806
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POACHY»
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Day to show off the animals
... made out of recycled materials and on the right is Cameron Hooper, 11, with his chicken called Poachy. Front left is Bree Doherty-Lawson, 9, ... «Auckland stuff.co.nz, Sep 11»
Thinking of keeping hens in the garden? Here's why you should …
Their names are Ginger, Topaz and Poachy. And they are my chickens. Three years ago, I was one of the first wave of middle-class town ... «Daily Mail, Aug 11»
