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Definition of mole plough in English: mole ploughnoun A plough in which a pointed iron shoe attached to an upright support is drawn along beneath the surface, making a hollow drainage channel resembling a mole's burrow. Example sentencesExamples - As the mole plough progresses, cable is fed down through the blade, and is introduced into the ground.
- Today, where possible, all pipes are laid either using a mole plough or a thrust mole, both of which dramatically reduce ground surface disruption.
- Subsoilers or mole ploughs in modern use on the farm can cause new damage to those monuments which lay undisturbed for centuries below previous plough depths.
- With the bigger mole plough we lay 100m pipe for effluent or irrigation.
- The new main will be laid at a depth to avoid damage by the mole plough.
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