Meaning & use
Limed
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Treated with lime, a calcium compound, especially to reduce soil acidity or to cure animal hides.
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The farmer limed the field before planting to balance its pH.
The tannery limed the hides to loosen the hair before tanning.
A note on using this word
In an older, now rare sense, 'limed' could also mean caught with birdlime, a sticky substance once smeared on branches to trap small birds.
Another way to use it
2. verb
Caught or trapped using birdlime, a sticky substance smeared on branches.
The finch was limed before it could fly free.
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