sod
/sɑd/ noun C1- The stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
- Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns. · The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.
- A piece of this.
Plural sods
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Black are my steps on silver sod;
She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.
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