| 单词 | scooter plough |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscooter plough 3. U.S. [Perhaps a different word: compare dialect form cooter at coulter n. Forms.] A simple plough with a single handle used for marking furrows, making drills, breaking up the soil in furrows or between rows of plants. In full scooter 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 1820 in Henderson's North Carolina Almanack (1823) 25 The ridges are opened with a small plough called a scooter, something like a shovel plough. 1842 in J. A. Turner Cotton Planter's Manual (1857) 55 The next operation to be performed..is to plough out the middles well, the wide way, with a good shovel-plough, having first run around the young plant with a scooter-plough. 1854 Florida Plantation Rec. 104 Corn plowes 20, cotton shovels 22, Scuters 14. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 414 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV 100 bushels of cotton seed were turned under with a Brinley plow, followed in the same furrow by a scooter, breaking the soil six or seven inches. 1895 Rural World 14 Dec. 867/2 If there is no proper subsoil plough, then run a..scooter in the furrow. 1905 Times Engin. Suppl. 9 Aug. 189/3 As soon as the tobacco plants are firmly set, a ‘scooter’ is run between the rows, which throws up a flat-bottom furrow. 1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xxx. 385 He brought old Caesar and the scooter plow and turned in to the field, laid off and bedded up ready for the corn, to open the furrows for the planting. 1944 T. D. Clark Pills, Petticoats & Plows 281 By colloquial designations the various strange shapes were known to the trade as sweeps, shovels, scooters, twisters,..scrapers and subsoilers. < as lemmas |
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