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Cankery

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying..

Definitions by Sense

  1. Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.
  2. Marked by cankers; ulcerous.
  3. Rusty; corroded.
  4. Corrosive.
  5. (of taste) Metallic or bitter.
  6. Surly; cantankerous.
  7. Characteristic of canker (disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths)

Example Sentences

Mix fresh cow-dung with urine and soap-suds, and with this mixture, was over the sems and branches of the trees, as a white-washer would wash the ceiling or walls of a room; taking care to cut off all the cankery parts , and to scrape off all the moss , before you lay the mixture on. In the course of the Spring or Summer you will fee a fine new bark coming on. When the old bark is cankery, you must pare is off with a draw-knife, or such a long knife as I have had made on purpose, especially for wall-trees; where the draw-knife cannot be applied next the wall.
In the pruning of standards give only occasional pruning, to reform or remove any casual irregularity from cross-placed or very crowded branches; and take away all cankery and decayed wood .
The part of the trunk below a shews the cankery state of the bark; which rough cankery bark must always be pared off, otherwise it will infect the new .
It is powerfully effecacious in the cleansing and arresting the progress of cankery affections of every kind, and removing all local foulness from any part .
A Child of Mr Joshua Fales, aged 6 1/2 years of a cankery Disorder .
These cankery complaints require a wash made of the medicine recommended by Dr. Thomson to remove canker .
The next from of Chancre we have to notice is that denominated malignant; which is an ulcer having a circumjacent scarlet hue, cankery and putrid .
The water in this pit varied from two inches to a foot in depth, and in some places it had stood so many years that it was cankery, or corroded, and working in it barefooted, it would eat the skin off between my toes, making it very painful.

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What does cankery mean?

Cankery means Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying..

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How do you use cankery in a sentence?

Mix fresh cow-dung with urine and soap-suds, and with this mixture, was over the sems and branches of the trees, as a white-washer would wash the ceiling or walls of a room; taking care to cut off all the cankery parts , and to scrape off all the moss , before you lay the mixture on. In the course of the Spring or Summer you will fee a fine new bark coming on. When the old bark is cankery, you must pare is off with a draw-knife, or such a long knife as I have had made on purpose, especially for wall-trees; where the draw-knife cannot be applied next the wall.

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