单词 | subsoil plough |
释义 | subsoil ploughsubsoil plown. A kind of plough with no mouldboard, used to loosen the soil at some depth below the surface without turning it up. Cf. mole plough n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > subsoil plough sub-plough1775 subsoil plough1824 subsoiler1838 Michigan plough1859 1824 Amer. Farmer 12 Mar. 408/3 Shovel ploughs—sub-soil ploughs—hill side ploughs—Cultivators of several kinds. 1833 J. Smith Thorough Draining in Rep. Exhib. Agric. Productions Stirling (W. Drummond & Sons) 60 The Subsoil Plough..has been constructed on principles appearing the best fitted to break up the subsoil completely. 1849 L. F. Allen New Amer. Farm Bk. v. 91 What is beyond it, should be thoroughly broken up by the subsoil plow. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. v. 186 If the land be ploughed a subsoil plough should be run in the furrows where practicable. 1970 Indian Forester 96 11 Tractors s-100 or dt-75 or dt-54A are used with scarifiers r-80, rn-80b and rt-2, brush-bog plows pkb-75 and sub-soil plows ppu-50a (for furrows). 2000 Turkish Daily News (Nexis) 16 June Agricultural equipment (dibbling machinery, cultivators, sprayers and subsoil ploughs) will be procured and distributed to assist the small farmers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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