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ˈseed-furrow
Also seed-fur.
1. A furrow for the reception of seed.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §4 And yf he wyll haue his plough to go a narowe forowe, as a sede-forowe shulde be, than he setteth his fote-teame in the nycke nexte to the ploughe⁓beame. 1764Ann. Reg. 76 A..seed plough..which makes three seed-furrows at once, at any distance from each other. 1844H. Stephens Book of Farm II. 503 Land should only receive one furrow, the seed-furrow, for spring-wheat.
2. The process of producing a seed-furrow. Phrases, to get, give the seed-furrow.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. xi. 43 Their seuerall orders and seasons for fallowing, twifallowing, tri⁓fallowing and seed-furre. 1743R. Maxwell Select Trans. Impr. Agric. Scot. 83 In the Spring give a Steering-fur, as it is called; then the Seed-fur; then sow Barley or Bear with Grass-seeds. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 271 A much less quantity is taken off when land gets the seed-furrow, the chief design of which is to enlarge the pasture. 1805Forsyth Beauties Scot. II. 217 It is neither practicable nor prudent to give the seed-furrow to much of that land in winter. a1830Glouc. Farm Rep. 7 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, If the land requires another ploughing before the seed-furrow.
3. attrib.
1764J. Randall in Gentl. Mag. XXXIV. 515/1, I find you have done me the honour of taking notice of my Seed⁓furrow plough.
Hence ˈseed-furrow v. trans., to ‘give the seed-furrow’ to (land). ˈseed-furrowing vbl. n.
1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 217 Another ploughing must be given, previous to the application of manure, after which it ought to be seed furrowed, by the end of August. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 501 They are always formed on ridges, never on the flat, and only used in seed-furrowing. |