disc harrow

British  

noun

1. a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting

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Example Sentences

I cultivate with the disc harrow, cultivator, and plow, until the trees cover the ground, from twelve to fifteen years from planting.

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I believe in cultivation with the plow and disc harrow until the trees shade the ground so that weeds cannot grow much.

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I cultivate my orchard with a disc harrow followed by a common harrow, until they begin to bear; plant corn, potatoes or other hoed crop in a young orchard.

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Cultivate up to this time with twenty-inch disc harrow, and grow no crop.

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I cultivate my trees eight years; first four to potatoes, using a disc harrow; plow shallow among young trees; plant nothing in a bearing orchard.

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