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1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 53 They have a little Plough also call'd Ristle, i.e. a thing that cleaves, the Culter of which is in Form of a Sickle, and it is drawn sometimes by One, and sometimes by Two Horses, according as the Ground is.

1771 J. Walker Rep. on Hebrides (1980) 55 There is another Instrument also used in the Harris and the other parts of the Long Island, in the Cultivation of their arable Land, called a Ristle.

1793 J. L. Buchanan Trav. in Western Hebrides 1782 to 1790 vi. 153 The cass chrom is a kind of plough somewhat like a spade, that is only driven by men's feet...Before this the rustle must cut also.

1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 470 Two men with two horses first guide and drag the restle, which cuts without opening the furrow.

1879 Mem. Ochiltree 53 The ristle plough..seems to have been capable only of making a deep scratch on the soil.

1933 Man 33 113 The reporters mention the ristle or sickle plough (nearly the figure ascribed to the Roman plough) and the Scottish plough drawn by four horses as being in use on the larger holdings.

1977 R. E. F. Smith Peasant Farming in Muscovy i. i. 21 Such grassy cover would call for the use of a ristle plough or a coulter to open up the soil beneath it.

2007 M. Rackwitz Trav. to Terra Incognita vi. 299 These ploughs differed slightly from island to island, but all the various types were so light that they depended on the use of a ristle.