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chitting

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1727, OED Evaluation: N/A

Sprouting, germination; spec. the process of allowing potatoes, etc., to sprout.

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E-- ah chitting. You take them out about a month before you're going to plant them, and you put them in bright light, not sunlight, and you let them- i-- i-- if they were in- in dark, they would be a foot high, and because they're in bright light, all they're doing- they're sprouting but staying very squat, very small. And when you plant them outside, like the first of June I'll plant them outside, and they will grow immediately because they're- all the want is that moisture in the ground and it'll grow.
Sprouting, germination; spec. the process of allowing potatoes, etc., to sprout.