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▪ I. ˈwater-ˌfurrow, n.
[Cf. G. wasserfurche.]
A deep furrow made for conducting water from the ground and keeping it dry.
854in Birch Cartul. Sax. II. 78 On þa weter furh innan smalan broc. c1440Promp. Parv. 213/1 Gryppe, or a gryppel, where water rennythe a-way in a londe, or water forowe, aratiuncula. Ibid. 518/1 Waterforowe [v.rr. -foore, -fore], in londe, elicus, sulcus. 1482Cov. Leet Bk. 510 Strecchyng down be a watir-fforough where some-tyme was a diche & a heye vnto þe watir of Shirburn. 1483Cath. Angl. 410/2 A Watir fure, elix. a1677T. Manton Serm. Ps. cxix. 23 (1725) I. 111 As Husbandmen when their ground is overflowed by waters, make Ditches and Water-furrows to carry it away. 1710D. Hilman Tusser Rediv. Mar. (1744) 32 [Standing water must be] drain'd off with Water-Furrows. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 49 Unless the water collected from the different ‘buts’ or ‘ridges’, can easily get away, it will be to no purpose to facilitate its passage from these..by ‘water-furrows’, or small cuts made by the plough or spade. 1842Sproule Agric. (ed. 2) 70 These open furrows serve, likewise, for drains to carry off the surface-water, and being cleared out after the seed is sown, they are termed water-furrows.
attrib.1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 146 The 40 ridges will require 79 turnings of the sower and harrows, and 41 turnings of the water-fur plough.
▪ II. ˈwater-ˌfurrow, v.
[f. prec.]
trans. To make water-furrows in (land). Hence ˈwater-ˌfurrowing vbl. n.
1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §13 If a drye season come before Candelmasse..it [sc. the ridged fallow] wolde be caste downe and waterforowed bytwene the landes. 1557Tusser 100 Points Husb. xxii. (1878) 223 The sede being sowne, water⁓forow thy ground. 1560Pilkington Aggeus G iv b, Let hym..water, hedge, and waterforow, or what other thyng so euer he can deuise to make the ground fruitfull. 1662Atwell Faithf. Surveyor 91 It follows now to speak of those that must be done either chiefly by the spade, or onely the spade. Chiefly by the spade, called water-furrowing. 1707Mortimer Husb. Kal., October..Well Water-furrow, and Drain new sown Corn Land. 1743in R. Maxwell Sel. Trans. Agric. Scot. 41 Plow up the Land and water-fur it. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 207 In preparing land for a crop, water-furrowing is a very important operation. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 140 The furrows [should be] struck out with a plough,..and the field left gripped and water⁓furrowed. 1902Daily Chron. 3 Feb. 7/5 The cost of producing wheat..is per acre about as follows:—Twelve carts of manure at 5s. per cart, {pstlg}3;..water-furrowing, 1s. |