"burn-beat" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: burn-beats [present, singular, third-person], burn-beating [participle, present], burn-beat [past], burn-beaten [participle, past]
Etymology: burn + beat (“to pare off turf”) Head templates: {{en-verb|burn-beat<,,beat,beaten>}} burn-beat (third-person singular simple present burn-beats, present participle burn-beating, simple past burn-beat, past participle burn-beaten)
  1. To prepare land for agricultural use by burning the topsoil, used especially on sour or wet soil. Related terms: burn-baited, burnbeating, slash and burn Translations (to burn the topsoil): kydöttää (Finnish)

Inflected forms

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