All 8 Uses of
cultivate
in
The Grapes of Wrath
- Where the dooryard had been pounded hard by the bare feet of children and by stamping horses' hooves and by the broad wagon wheels, it was cultivated now, and the dark green, dusty cotton grew.†
Chpt 6
- the land was cultivated.
Chpt 6 *cultivated = ready for growing crops
- Along the rows, the cultivators move, tearing the spring grass and turning it under to make a fertile earth, breaking the ground to hold the water up near the surface, ridging the ground in little pools for the irrigation, destroying the weed roots that may drink the water away from the trees.†
Chpt 25
- Five dollars for forty fifty-pound boxes; trees pruned and sprayed, orchards cultivated--pick the fruit, put it in boxes, load the trucks, deliver the fruit to the cannery--forty boxes for five dollars.†
Chpt 25
- He bent low and ran over the cultivated earth; the clods slipped and rolled under his feet.†
Chpt 26
- They trip over their feet in the cultivated earth.†
Chpt 27
- Fella had a team of horses, had to use 'em to plow an' cultivate an' mow, wouldn' think a turnin' 'em out to starve when they wasn't workin'.†
Chpt 29
- A few rusty farm tools lay about, a disk plow and a broken cultivator, an iron wheel.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(cultivate) enhance growth or developmentin various senses, including:
- to grow crops or prepare land for them
- enhance a relationship -- especially for a purpose
- develop discernment (better recognition of differences) in taste or judgment
- to grow a culture in a petri dish