bush hog
1 Americannoun
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a device, pulled behind a tractor, having one or more blades spinning parallel to the ground and attached radially to a central axis, used for cutting vegetation and clearing land.
verb (used with object)
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The songs on “Fire It Up” mix it up in finding different ways to fill the dance floor, from the toe-tapper “One Good Turn” and hip-shaker “I’m Not Havin’ It” to the foot-stomper “Far Away,” finger-snapper “Heartbreak Street” and palate-cleanser “Bush Hog.”
From Washington Times
So, Garrison said eight of this year’s 20-acre hemp crop will wind up in the bush hog, ground into hay, because of it.
From Washington Times
He knew tractors and combines, of course, and had seen his dad’s bush hog and manure spreader and gravity wagons up close, in the barn.
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But the trees are mostly beaten back with an annual cutting by a Bush Hog mower or in woodier areas a beefier machine called a forestry mulcher.
From Washington Post
He plants and weeds with a tractor disc and a Bush Hog.
From New York Times
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