| 单词 | prairie breaker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie breaker prairie breaker n. a heavy-duty plough designed to cut a wide shallow furrow and to invert the furrow slice (cf. prairie plough n.); (also, in quot. 1857) a person who uses such a plough. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > other types of plough ox-plough?1523 double plough1653 chip plough1742 Rotherham plough1743 fluke plough1775 breaking plough1781 miner1794 snap-plough1798 turf-cutter1819 scooter plough1820 bull-tongue1831 prairie plough1831 split-plough1840 prairie breaker1857 straddle-plough1875 tickle-plough1875 chill-plough1886 stump-jump1896 swamp plough1930 prairie buster1943 1857 J. Stirling Lett. from Slave States 11 Here the pioneer is not the backwoodsman with his axe, but the ‘prairie-breaker’ with his team and plough. 1859 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 19 Aug. 1/3 Skinner's Anti-Friction Plow... As a prairie breaker it literally has no rival. 1897 I. P. Roberts Fertility of Land ii. 53 One of the old-style prairie-breakers, with the beam nine to ten feet long, and capable of withstanding almost any amount of strain. 1941 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 49 341 The plow used was commonly a heavy, specialized, prairie-breaker, pulled by three to eight yoke of oxen. 1992 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 18 May 66 In 1837 John Deere forged his first steel plow, ‘the Prairie breaker’. < as lemmas |
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