fertilizer mill

One in which the materials are ground to powder so as to be sown from a machine. fertilizer-sower, s . A form of seeding-machine adapted to sow granulated manures, such as dry poudrette, the phosphates, bone-dust, lime, guano, . It sometimes forms a machine by itself, and sometimes is an attachment to a wheat-drill or a turnip-drill. *fer-tre, *feer-tyr, s [O. Fr. fertere, fiertre, from Lat. feretrum. A feretory (q. v.). *fer-tre, v . t [FERTRE, 8.] To place in a feretory or shrine.