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单词 sub-plough
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sub-ploughsub-plown.

Brit. /ˈsʌbplaʊ/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌplaʊ/
Forms: see sub- prefix and plough n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, plough n.1
Etymology: < sub- prefix + plough n.1 Compare sub-plough v., and later subsoil plough n.
= subsoil plough n. Now chiefly attributive, designating the area of soil loosened by such a plough.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > subsoil plough
sub-plough1775
subsoil plough1824
subsoiler1838
Michigan plough1859
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 16 Aug. (1778) sig. M3 Put old Nimrod to the sub-plow.
1839 Leicester Chron. 21 Sept. 1/7 A ‘sub plough’, promising great utility, will be presented.
1859 Rep. Maine State Agric. Soc. 1855 214 Your neighbour..has sub-ploughs, surface ploughs and sod ploughs.
1970 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 2 Oct. 29/8 (advt.) Caterpillar..w. beam and sub-plow.
1985 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 14 4 We stripped rather large areas of top soil in order to reveal sub-plow zone features.
2004 A. M. Byers Ohio Hopewell Episode ix. 210 Further research involving sub-plough zone excavation might help resolves these questions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sub-ploughsub-plowv.

Brit. /ˈsʌbplaʊ/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌplaʊ/
Forms: see sub- prefix and plough v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, plough v.
Etymology: < sub- prefix + plough v. Compare sub-plough n., and later subsoil-plough v.
transitive. To plough (land) using a sub-plough; = subsoil-plough v. Also occasionally intransitive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] > deep plough
trench-plough1731
sub-plough1775
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > deep plough
trench-plough1731
sub1775
subsoil1818
subsoil-plough1844
sub-plough1845
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 15 Aug. (1778) sig. M3 Sub-plowed, Harrowed, Carried off the weeds.
1845 Amer. Farmer Oct. 105/2 The sod..should then be..sub-ploughed at the same time, and rolled and harrowed each way.
1897 Penny Illustr. Paper 1 May 277/2 A big crop should never be attempted unless the soil has been either sub-dug or sub-ploughed.
1917 Domest. Engin. 20 Jan. 75/1 I've plowed and subplowed these fields and never struck rock yet.
2009 A. Seidl Early Spring vii. 140 If those lands were..subplowed to enhance topsoil formation, up to 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon could be sequestered.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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