Definition of "top-dress" []

• To cover (a road surface) with loose material that is not worked in. (verb-transitive)
• To cover (farmland) with fertilizer. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "‘To tell the truth, my friend, I should not have done very well here unless I had been able to top-dress the English acres with a little Australian gold.’"
• "They must plow, and sow, and top-dress, and bottom-dress, and deep-drain, and surface-drain, and all the rest of it."
• "From its dwarfness this Daffodil is very liable to be soiled; either of three plans may be adopted to prevent this: Plant on grass; top-dress in"