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lazy bed

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lazy bed (plural lazy beds)

A traditional arrangement for arable cultivation in Britain, consisting of parallel banks of ridge and furrow with narrow drainage channels between them.

lazy-bed (plural lazy-beds)

(agriculture, historical) a ridge of ground generally used for growing potatoes and sometimes also for raising corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with earth dug out of trenches along both sides

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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lazy-bed

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