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cultivate

On-Yomi: バイ — Kun-Yomi: つちか.う

Elements:

cultivate, soil, dirt, ground, muzzle, vase, stand up, mouth

Heisig story:

The barrel hoops used by many Japanese farmers to stretch clear plastic over row of vegetables in a garden patch in the hopes of cultivating bigger and bigger vegetables is a way of muzzling the soil.

Koohii stories:

1) [uberclimber] 15-10-2010(186): To cultivate the land is to tame it, control it. In short, you muzzle it's unruly, chaotic nature. 培う つちかう to cultivate, to foster; 栽培 (さいばい) : cultivation.

2) [PepeSeco] 13-3-2008(137): The illegal immigrants cultivate the land but are socially and politically muzzled (wear muzzles while they work too).

3) [nilfisq] 20-8-2007(64): In olden times the land (soil) was cultivated by farmers who were muzzled by the land owners: they were prevented from expressing their opinions.

4) [fiddle] 15-6-2006(28): The SOIL is MUZZLED to stop it screaming as it is CULTIVATED (torn up with blades).

5) [nolusu] 19-7-2007(17): Image people cultivating , standing in a hole in the ground, preparing the soil to receive the next crop.

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