top soil

English

Noun

top soil (countable and uncountable, plural top soils)

  1. Alternative form of topsoil.
    • 1958 January, “Rainham-Newington Widening, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, pages 51, 53:
      The top soil, which was removed before the main excavations, is being redressed on the new slopes to a depth of 4 in. and sown with grass seed.
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