teart

Etymology
Dialectal form of, applied by British farmers to soils since before the era of chemical science and the discovery of molybdenum but retroactively defined by molybdenum concentration and pH level.

Adjective

 * 1)  Tending toward scouring (diarrheal illness) in grazing livestock, being high in molybdenum content and neutral to alkaline in pH.

Usage notes
The comparative forms would be tearter and teartest, being cognate with and, although being dialectal in an agrarian age they are not attested in written records.

Etymology
From, from , from , from

Adjective

 * 1) tart
 * 2) sharp