seedtime

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To understand it, we need to go back to what can accurately be termed the seedtime of sexism.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2022

Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this way the seasons, as well as the elements of the soil, are so modified and vitalized as to give to man seedtime and harvest, and needful food to every "living and creeping thing."

From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey

Thus:— “How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not a seedtime of character?”

From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur

For ordinary washing he gets half as much as the blacksmith or carpenter, or 13 to 20 lbs. of grain annually from each householder, with about another 10 lbs. at seedtime or harvest.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)