Heavy soils=, soils that are hard to work; stiff, cloddy soils.
If the soil is left lumpy and cloddy then capillary water cannot rise readily from below to take the place of that which is lost by evaporation.
One disadvantage is that it cannot be used with much satisfaction on certain soils when the ground is cloddy or frozen, or when it is wet.
When sown by hand or by hand machines on soils East and South, the roller should in many instances follow and then the harrow, but on cloddy surfaces the harrow should be used first and then the roller.
On the other hand, the hazard would be even greater to sow clover on these soils when in a cloddy condition.
They must be neither cloddy or cobby, but should be framed on the lines of speed, showing a graceful racing outline.
He should be a fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy than a cloddy appearance.
The specimens alive in 1817, as seen in prints of that period, were not so cloddy as those met with at the present day.
I am the unquenched spark ever flashing and astonishing the face of time, ever working my will and wreaking my passion on the cloddy aggregates of matter, called bodies, which I have transiently inhabited.
Figure 94 shows an earth-mulch, but it is too shallow; and the under soil is so open and cloddy that the water runs through it.
Lands that are hard and cloddy may be reduced by the use of the disk or Acme harrows, shown in Fig.
Disk and Acme harrows, for the first working of hard or cloddy land.
It's a pity a body Coudna haud on here, Puttin cloddy to cloddy Till he had a bit lan' here!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cloddy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
