| 单词 | prairie plough |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie plough prairie plough n. (also prairie plow) now chiefly historical a plough suitable for prairie-breaking; = prairie breaker n. 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 1831 W. Sewall Diary 50 Apr. (1930) 136 Sat off with the team, and a prairie plow which came on late last night with instructions, to commence breaking prairie. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1782/1 Prairie-plow, a large plow supported in front on wheels, and adapted to pare and overturn a very broad but shallow furrow-slice. 1949 Agric. Hist. 23 124/2 The farmer, after first breaking the tough prairie sod with the newly-invented prairie plow, sowed a field of wheat, a field of corn, and possibly some oats, barley, or flax. 1999 A. C. Guelzo Abraham Lincoln i. 42 The prairie grass, with its twisty root systems as much as three feet deep, could not be broken by anything but heavy prairie plows, pulled by five to ten yoke of oxen. < as lemmas |
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