单词 | skim-coulter |
释义 | skim-coultern. Agriculture. a. A coulter fitted with a plate of iron or steel which shaves off the top-layer of the ground and turns it into the furrow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > coulter > type of scaife1793 skim-coulter1797 skeith1851 1797 Monthly Mag. Dec. 447/1 Mr. Ducket was the original inventor of the skim-coulter... It consists of a thin plate of iron, with a sharp edge, fixed horizontally to a common coulter. 1803 A. Young in A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) III. 163 This is entirely prevented by the skim-coulter, which is applicable to every sort of soil. 1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Dec. 1332 There was a skim coulter that turned the sward in under the furrow. 1881 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects 81 A skim-coulter attached to the plough. b. attributive in skim-coulter plough; also used as v. ΚΠ 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 74 Two skim-coulter ploughs, two drill markers. 1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) iii. 23 To have the surface scarified, horse-hoed, or skim coulter ploughed. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 264 Skim-coulter ploughs have been used to obviate this inconvenience. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 728/2 The double-plow, in which a shallow share preceded the deeper-running, longer plow, originated in England, where it is known as the skim-coulter plow. Derivatives ˈskim-ˌcoultered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [adjective] > having specific coulter(s) finned1707 four-coultereda1740 skim-coultered1805 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 542 It may be better to follow the practice adopted in some districts of using a skim-coultered plough. 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 416 No plough ever yet invented will effect this object so well as a skim coultered plough. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1797 |
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