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earth up
verb
- tr, adverb to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
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In a famous story, a medieval cosmologist is asked what holds the earth up.
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鈥淵ou can鈥檛 just shovel earth up there, you need to find a way of anchoring it, and then you also have to anchor a ski surface, plants, trees. It starts to get complicated.鈥
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Winnie, the central character 鈥 really the only one 鈥 is immured in earth up to her waist.
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"What it does to the earth up there is disgusting," he said.
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In a revival of his two-act play 鈥淗appy Days,鈥 she played a woman buried in a mound of earth up to her neck.
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