Synonyms:
turf, sod, sward, greensward
Meaning: surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
sod
Meaning: cover with sod
Usage examples
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.