| 单词 | bull-tongue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbull-tongue bull-tongue n. (also bull-tongue plough) U.S. a simple form of 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 1831 M. Holley Texas (1833) 139 Many farmers use the coulter and bull-tongue plough. 1837 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 262 25¢ for making a bul tung. 1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 366 It will also serve to explain..why a bull-tongue or shovel plow..will raise more corn than a mouldboard plow. 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 204 It is planted..and covered with double shovel planes and ‘bull tongues’. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 414 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The field was plowed with a turning plow, followed in the same furrow with a long bull-tongue plow. 1886 Harper's Mag. June 58/2 Ploughing is commonly done with a ‘bull-tongue’, an implement hardly more than a sharpened stick with a metal rim. bull-tongue bull-tongue v. transitive, to go over (land or crops) with a bull-tongue plough. ΚΠ 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 248 Whether hoeing the small corn or rolling or bull-tonguing or hilling-up. < as lemmas |
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