单词 | sub-ploughing |
释义 | sub-ploughingsub-plowingn. Now rare. The action of sub-plough v. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > deep ploughing trench-ploughing1763 sub-ploughing1775 subsoil ploughing1833 subsoiling1837 1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 16 Aug. (1778) sig. M3 Nothing can equal sub-plowing for clearing the surface from running weeds. 1839 Times 25 Jan. 3/1 Mr. Smith..has turned his attention to the draining of land, by draining and sub-ploughing. 1867 B. Otis Diary of Milliner iii. 32 The dressing and sub-plowing, the furrowing, and putting in of the seed. 1916 Nebraska Hort. Apr. 6/1 The opening of a compact soil by means of explosives will supply this oxygen much better and cheaper than plowing and sub-plowing could possibly do. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1775 |
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