Meanings
- alternativeobsoleterareAlternative spelling of maggoty bay bean
[footnote] * Called alſo the Magotty-Bay-Bean
1793, American Philosophical Society (publisher), “Remarks On the Cassia”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 3, number 27, page 2282 more examples
Whenever a field is not in cultivation, it puts up every where a rich luxuriant crop of a sort of wild vetch, called the magotty-bay bean, which shades the land while it is growing, and returns to it a rich coat of vegetable manure.
1835, William Henry Brockenbrough, A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia, and the District of Columbia, page 249In Northampton, a wild crop, called magotty-bay bean luxuriates, when the fields are not in cultivation, and this serves as a fertilizing plant.
1907, Ruth Hairston Early, By-ways of Virginia History, A Jamestown Memorial, Embracing a Sketch of Pocahontas, page 298
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