bull tongue

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noun

a plow having a vertical moldboard, used in cultivating cotton.

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Origin of bull tongue

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Words nearby bull tongue

bull's nose, bull stretcher, bull's wool, bull terrier, bull thistle, bull tongue, bull trout, bullwaddy, bullwhacker, bull wheel, bullwhip

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How to use bull tongue in a sentence

After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
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Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
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The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.
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Language was no barrier; just about every tongue on the planet was babbling away, caught up in the elaborate mystique of a cult.
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Jack the Ripper|Clive Irving|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Yes, the minor-league baseball player memorably portrayed by Kevin Costner in Bull Durham.
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“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
Children's Ways|James Sully
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for bull tongue

bull tongue

noun mainly US

a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard

a plough or cultivator with a single shovel

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