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With slit-seeding, a machine called either a slice seeder or slit seeder cuts vertical slits through the thatch layer and into the soil, leaving behind shallow grooves about one-inch deep.—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026 The spray will move some of the loose soil dredged up by the disks of the slit-seeder back into the slits, thereby covering the seed.—David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 19 Feb. 2026 Chinese parasol tree can be a prolific seeder and can send up sprouts.—Sheila Yount, arkansasonline.com, 18 Oct. 2024 For all their star-chomping notoriety, black holes are also active seeders of new worlds.—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for seeder