top dressing

1. 1.

   a layer of fertilizer or manure not plowed in

   Broaderfertilization

Questions about top dressing

What does top dressing mean?

top dressing means "a layer of fertilizer or manure not plowed in".

Is top dressing a common word?

top dressing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.