mole plow

noun

a plow typically having a pointed shoe at the end of a vertical support, for cutting a hollow drainage channel below the surface.

Origin of mole plow

1790-1800

First recorded in 1790-1800

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Stephens gives a minute description of the mole plow figured above, in his Book of the Farm.

Farm drainage Henry Flagg French

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