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1670.  Sir T. Culpepper, Necess. Abating Usury, 32. His farme is understocked, ill fenced, and out of heart.

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1733.  Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husb., xiv. 166. The Ground may be … understock’d with Plants.

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1792.  A. Young, Trav. France, 489. For the country … to import so immensely, shews how wretchedly they are understocked with sheep.

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1846.  McCulloch, Acc. Brit. Empire (1854), I. 561. Farms in all parts of Britain are decidedly understocked.

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