[f. SPEWY a.] Agric. Spewy, boggy or undrained condition (of land).
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 551. These … would in time bear store of good fruits; if the coldnesse and spewinesse of the soil … did not make them dwindle.
1762. Tull’s Horse-Hoeing Husb. (ed. 4), xvi. 246. The most prejudiced Farmers agree, that keeping the Lands or Ridges of wet Ground always cross the Descent doth cure its Spewiness.
