meeker

1. comparativecomparative form of meek: more meek

present singular third person meekers · participle present meekering · participle past meekered · past meekered

1. agricultureTo break up and smooth soil with a harrow.

   The area was plowed on May 10, 1977, disked on May 15 and meekered and harrowed on May 23 and 27.

   1978, Ezuddin Sultan Mohammed, Early competition between redroot pigweed and tomato, page 51

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   After the field has been meekered it looks like it had been gone over with a garden rake, all clods having been cut or crushed and as level as a floor.

   1918, Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society, page 333

   I did not think it was necessary for all of you realize that your ground should be plowed, disked, harrowed, and meekered for a good seed bed.

   1943, Ohio Vegetable and Potato Growers Association, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. A town, the county seat of Rio Blanco County, Colorado.

      The flock spent most of the next day about Chasm Lake, just under the northern crags of Meeker.

      1915 April 28, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42

   2. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Ohio.
   3. A town in Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
   4. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
   5. A former hamlet in the village of Germantown, Washington County, Wisconsin.