Word Meanings - TOPSOILING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

Related words: (words related to TOPSOILING)

• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• BEGUN
  of Begin.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• EMBANKMENT
  1. The act of surrounding or defending with a bank. 2. A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• TAKE-UP
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• TAKING-OFF
  Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
• EXCAVATION
  1. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. 2. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation." Glover. An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• BEFORE
  1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
• TAKER
  One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• STAKTOMETER
  A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• UNDERTAKING
  1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt. 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. 3. Specifically, the business of an
• RETAKE
  1. To take or receive again. 2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• PARTAKER
  1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.