English Dictionary

moot earth

名詞

ウェスト・カントリー方言 不可算名詞

(West Country) Soil taken from between the roots of a tree.

日本語の意味

ウエスト・カントリー方言において、木の根の間から採取された土壌

She pressed a pinch of moot earth between her fingers before tucking the seedling into its new home.

彼女は苗を新しい場所に植え付ける前に、木の根の間から取った土を指でつまんで押さえた。

意味（1）

(West Country) Soil taken from between the roots of a tree.

It is the nature of lime to attract oils, and dissolve vegetable bodies: Hence arise the good effects of lime in the improvement of black moorish land. Moot earth seems to consist of dissolved and half-dissolved vegetable substances, and it is said that lime assimilates the one, and dissolves the other.