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单词 rotavator
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Definition of rotavator in English:

rotavator

(also rotovator)
nounˈrəʊtəveɪtəˈroʊdəˌveɪdər
trademark
  • A machine with rotating blades for breaking up or tilling the soil.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I hired a rotavator and got last year's pig pen turned over ready for the sowing of seeds starting next month.
    • He said that it was felt that some of the implements like rotavators and bed planters being very costly, were not within the reach of the farmer.
    • We annoyed the neighbours with a borrowed rotavator at the weekend instead of employing someone to do it all for us on a weekday.
    • We have been able to come up with an old tractor with a bucket that moves the materials, and we also have a rotovator with which we can mix the materials.
    • It would also extend finance up to 90 per cent on tractor-operated implements such as trailer, cultivator, rotovator, front-end dozer and loaders.

Derivatives

  • rotavate

  • verb ˈrəʊtəveɪtˈroʊdəˌveɪt
    [with object]
    • Break up or till (soil) using a rotavator.

      the field has been ploughed and rotavated
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One section has also been sown with green manure, including clovers, which grow in the soil but can be rotovated back in.
      • The five volunteers who have already signed up have joined the four project staff in ploughing, rotavating and digging the plot to prepare for cultivation.
      • Over 25 years ago the field was rotovated, drained and levelled.

Origin

1930s: blend of rotary + cultivator.

 
 

Definition of rotavator in US English:

rotavator

(also rotovator)
nounˈrōdəˌvādərˈroʊdəˌveɪdər
trademark
  • A machine with rotating blades for breaking up or tilling the soil.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It would also extend finance up to 90 per cent on tractor-operated implements such as trailer, cultivator, rotovator, front-end dozer and loaders.
    • He said that it was felt that some of the implements like rotavators and bed planters being very costly, were not within the reach of the farmer.
    • We annoyed the neighbours with a borrowed rotavator at the weekend instead of employing someone to do it all for us on a weekday.
    • We have been able to come up with an old tractor with a bucket that moves the materials, and we also have a rotovator with which we can mix the materials.
    • I hired a rotavator and got last year's pig pen turned over ready for the sowing of seeds starting next month.

Origin

1930s: blend of rotary + cultivator.

 
 
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